Davey v. Hall & Munson Co.

This is an action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of defendant in failing to provide a safe place for plaintiff to work in, and to properly construct, inspect, renew, and repair a certain tramway upon which plaintiff was employed as driver, and a fall from which caused the injury. Defendant is the owner of a large lumber-manufacturing plant at Bay Mills, in Chippewa county, composed' of sawmills, factories, lumber *207yards and docks, and about three miles of elevated tramways. The tramways are about 12 or 15 feet above the ground, and constructed in…