Luck v. City of Ripon
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Fond du Lac County. This action was brought by August Luck and Mvrmie Luck, his wife, for injuries to the person of the wife, alleged to have been caused by a defective sidewalk on one of the public streets of the defendant city. There was a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs; a new trial was refused; and defendant ap-. pealed from a judgment on the verdict. The errors alleged will sufficiently appear from the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
The principal errors alleged are in the admission of evidence in favor of the respondent, and in the instructions to the jury. The complaint, after stating the-, location of the sidewalk where the injury was sustained, alleges that the same “was in a dilapidated and dangerous con-, dition; the boards or planks of which said sidewalk was. constructed at that point, being old and decayed, and not being nailed or in any manner properly fastened to the sleepers or -' timbers across which they were laid, and had a long time before been by said defendant knowingly and negligently so suffered to be…
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