Maitland v. Gilbert Paper Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BubNell, Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover compensation for an injury Alleged to have been caused to plaintiff by actionable negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BubNell, Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover compensation for an injury Alleged to have been caused to plaintiff by actionable negligence of the defendant. The facts alleged, as to which there was no dispute, are, that at the time of the plaintiff’s injury he was, and for a long time prior thereto had been, in the •employ-of defendant as an engineer; that his duties were, in part, to attend to the boilers used to generate steam to •operate a stationary engine; that under his supervision were firemen, whose…
1Opinion of the CourtIVIaeshall, J.
Evidence was allowed, under objection from defendant’s counsel, respecting the effect on plaintiff’s right eye of the injury to the left ejm. t The complaint charged that the direct injury from the breaking of the glass was to the left eye. We see no reason why evidence as to all the injuries to plaintiff, which flowed naturally from the destruction of the left eye, was not competent. The objection to the evidence was properly overruled.
Plaintiff was allowed, under objection, to answer the question : “What, in your opinion, was the cause of the explosion of the glass ? ” That was one of the…
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