Cook v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. For a statement of the substance of the original complaint in this action, reference is made to the report of the former appeal therein, 24 Wis. 270 — 275. After the cause was remitted to the circuit, an amended complaint was filed, the chief additional allegations of which will sufficiently appear from the opinion, infra. A demurrer to this complaint for insufficiency of facts, was overruled; and defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
We do not think that the case presented in the amended complaint is essentially different from the one stated in the original complaint. There is, to be sure, a great deál of amplification in the statements of the amended complaint, but there is really nothing which takes the case out of the rule of the former decision in 24 Wis. 270. It is alleged that the flat stone at the south end of the crosswalk, and which extended over the gutter to Mason street, was placed in such a manner that the south end was about eight inches higher than the north end. This stone was about eight feet long from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cook v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1869
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