Grimm v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeeeN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Tbis action is brought to recover damages for injury to person and to property. Tbe plaintiff was tbe owner of a laundry sleigb and borse, and at about 5:30 o’clock pv m. of February 8, 1907, delivered laundry to a building located on tbe west side of Third street and about midway between Locust street on the north and Hadley street on tbe south.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: OeeeN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Tbis action is brought to recover damages for injury to person and to property. Tbe plaintiff was tbe owner of a laundry sleigb and borse, and at about 5:30 o’clock pv m. of February 8, 1907, delivered laundry to a building located on tbe west side of Third street and about midway between Locust street on the north and Hadley street on tbe south. Third street is one of tbe principal business streets of tbe city of Milwaukee, and a double track street car line is operated thereon. While making…
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
The evidence fails to disclose the width of the street or the distance between the curb and the south-bound *48track. It is in. many respects unsatisfactory, apparently because tbe witnesses were unable to express themselves understandingly. There is evidence from which, the jury might have found that when the plaintiff took his seat in the sleigh and lifted in the weight to which the horse had been hitched, he looked north and saw a car approaching him and about 900-feet distant, with an intervening street, upon the corner of which several people were standing, apparently for the purpose of…
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