Radichel v. Village of Kendall
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Ekuit, Circuit Judge. Action for damages' for personal injury.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Ekuit, Circuit Judge. Action for damages' for personal injury. The complaint was to this effect: Eor a long time prior to September 3, 1901, defendant’s officers, charged with the execution of its duty to keep its streets reasonably safe for public travel, had been accustomed to permit the owner of a buggy to leave the same, when not in use, in the traveled part of Ward street in the defendant village, in front of a building located on lot 8, block 12, thereof. Such buggy, so located, rendered the street dangerous for public…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshall, J.
The gravamen of the complaint is that the defendant had, for a long time before respondent was injured, permitted the street where the injury occurred to be unsafe for public travel by reason of the customary leaving therein of vehicles when not in use, in such a way that people *563traveling thereon in the nighttime in the exercise of ordinary care were liable to collide with some snob vehicle and receive a personal injury. We need hardly stop to discuss the question of whether the customary use of a street for the purpose of storing vehicles when not in use, so that the draft poles thereof are…
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