Fleming v. Northern Tissue Paper Mill
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for an injury claimed to Rave been caused by actionable negligence of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of tlie circuit court for Brown county: S. D. Hastings, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for an injury claimed to Rave been caused by actionable negligence of the defendant. The negligence complained of was the act of setting plaintiff to work at a machine for cutting tissue paper without informing him of the danger to be faced, knowing that he was wholly ignorant of the fact known to- it that the cutter knife on the machine, in case of the machine being improperly adjusted or equipped or out of repair, was liable to make an unexpected downward movement to…
1Opinion of the Court
*166Tlie following opinion was filed January 28, 1908:
MARSHALL, J.
Did tbe court err in bolding tbat tbe evidence was not sufficient to support tbe answer of tbe jury to tbe third question? Each of six apparently disinterested and credible witnesses testified tbat be worked at tbe cutter machine before appellant was injured and tbat occasionally tbe knife made a second downward movement with one pressure of tbe lever. Some of the witnesses testified tbat, at times, tbe knife would make more than a second such movement. Others testified tbat upon tbe machine so operating,, some readjustment was…
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