Steinkrause v. Eckstein
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. Turner, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff, one of a party of three young women and three young men, while riding in an automobile south on Twelfth street and at about the center of its intersection with Wells street in the city of Milwaukee, was injured by reason of a collision between that automobile and one driven by defendant’s servant coming west on Wells street.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. Turner, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff, one of a party of three young women and three young men, while riding in an automobile south on Twelfth street and at about the center of its intersection with Wells street in the city of Milwaukee, was injured by reason of a collision between that automobile and one driven by defendant’s servant coming west on Wells street. The automobile in which plaintiff was riding was owned by a copartnership, one member of which was the father of its driver, and it was used on this occasion…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The appealing defendant insists that the circuit court was wrong in granting a new trial and the civil court right in granting judgment of dismissal upon the theory that negligence of the driver of the automobile in which plaintiff was riding is imputed to the plaintiff and that she cannot recover because there was such contributory negligence as a matter of law on the part of the driver as made an absolute defense. Also that ■ such contributory negligence by the driver arose by reason of his violating, at the time of the injury, one or more of the three following statutory provisions:
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