Adams v. City of Oshkosh
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the County Court of Winnebago County. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The plaintiff had a verdict in the court below, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appealed. contended that the city authorities had no notice of the defective condition of the roacl so as to charge the city with liability.
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APPEAL from the County Court of Winnebago County. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The plaintiff had a verdict in the court below, and from the judgment entered thereon the defendant appealed. contended that the city authorities had no notice of the defective condition of the roacl so as to charge the city with liability. Qoodnough v. Oshkosh, 24 Wis. 549; Ward v. Jefferson, id. 342; Brady v. Lowell, 3 Cush. 121. Persons engaged in repairing streets, not hired for that purpose by the city corporation, are not, when performing such work, servants or agents in the employment…
1Opinion of the CourtTayloe, J.
The respondent brought an action against the city of Oshkosh to recover for the value of a horse which was killed in the night-time by running upon a pile ©f gravel and stones alleged to have been placed in one of the principal streets of said city by the said city, and permitted to remain there without any lights or barriers to warn persons traveling said street of the danger. The evidence satisfactorily shows that the obstruction was placed in the street by an employee of the city on the day the accident happened, and that such employee, with others, was at the time engaged in repairing…
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