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- Title: Wilder v. Classified Risk Insurance
- Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
- Release Date : January 02, 1970
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
Description
This is a suit by Simon Wilder, a pedestrian, to recover for personal injuries he received on October 22, 1965, when struck
by an automobile driven by the defendant Phillip Campbell. The defendant Classified Risk Insurance Company is the insurer
of Campbell who, accompanied by Donald Walker, a passenger, was driving a Ford west on Center Street between 10th and 11th
Streets in the city of Milwaukee. Wilder was crossing Center Street from the south about 100 feet west of the 10th Street
crosswalk and had reached a line of parked cars on the north side of Center Street when he was struck by Campbell's car. The
jury found Wilder 70 percent negligent and Campbell 30 percent. Judgment was entered on the verdict dismissing the complaint
and Wilder appeals. The issue on appeal is whether the police traffic-accident report including statements attributed to witnesses of the accident
is admissible in evidence. Officer Eddie Norris who investigated the accident took statements from defendant Campbell, his
passenger Donald Walker, and Elizabeth Williams, a witness. Officer Albert Gordon took a statement from Donald Walker and
from two other witnesses Joseph Gross and Ennis Smith. During the trial, Officer Norris was allowed to testify concerning
the statements made to him by Campbell, Walker and Williams and that he made an official traffic-accident report and in doing
so he relied upon the statements made by Joseph Gross and Ennis Smith to his fellow-officer Gordon. Without objection Officer
Norris was allowed to testify to what Gross had stated to Officer Gordon and over objection to what Smith had stated to Officer
Gordon. In both instances he read Officer Gordon's account of what these witnesses told him. Officer Norris was also allowed
to testify in effect to his Conclusion of how the accident happened, as was stated in his report.
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