Holmes v. City of Fond du Lac
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. The plaintiffs, John A. Holmes and. Esther Holmes, his wife, brought this action to recover for' injuries received by the wife in consequence of her stepping into a hole in a defective sidewalk.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Jefferson County. The plaintiffs, John A. Holmes and. Esther Holmes, his wife, brought this action to recover for' injuries received by the wife in consequence of her stepping into a hole in a defective sidewalk. In addition to the personal injuries suffered by the wife, the c'oniplaint alleges the loss of her services on the part of the husband, and the expense to which he was put in procuring for her medical attendance, etc., as grounds of recovery. The exceptions taken at the trial will sufficiently appear from the opinion. In regard to contributory…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The complaint in this case was framed under ch. 96, Laws of 1873. It includes such damages as the husband and the wife might by separate actions recover, biit which could not be united in the absence of that statute. On the trial, the deposition of the female plaintiff was offered in evidence. Her. téstimony was objected to generally on the part of the city, on the ground that, being the wife of her coplaintiff, she was an incompetent witness in the cause. When John A. Holmes was called as a witness for the plaintiffs, he was objected to generally, because he was the husband of the plaintiff…
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