Muska v. Economy Block Co.

The sole issue presented on this appeal is whether any of the credible evidence in this case will sustain the jury’s finding of negligence on the part of the truck driver, employee of the Economy Block Company. No issue is raised as to the matter of damages.

On August 2, 1954, about 1:30 or 2 p. m., Herbert Muska suffered a back injury while engaged in lifting and pushing a concrete lintel from a delivery truck onto the second-floor deck of a partially completed commercial building located at North Seventy-Second and West Burleigh streets in the city of Milwaukee. He was employed as a mason by…