Dodge v. Kaufman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
'Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade county: JonN G-oodlakd, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff brought- this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained on the 27th day of February, 1911, while he was working about defendants’ sawmill. He was then forty-two years old and was engaged in hauling away -lath-waste and other refuse.
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'Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Langlade county: JonN G-oodlakd, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff brought- this action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained on the 27th day of February, 1911, while he was working about defendants’ sawmill. He was then forty-two years old and was engaged in hauling away -lath-waste and other refuse. On the day of the injury he drove a dump-cart drawn by two horses into a driveway underneath the sawmill to empty into the cart the refuse of a dump-hox which was built into and extended from the ceiling of the driveway. This driveway was…
1Opinion of the CourtViNJE, J.
A considerable portion of the briefs of both parties is devoted to a discussion of defendants’ negligence in *174failing to fumisb plaintiff a safe place in which to wort, and of plaintiff’s contributory negligence. In the view of the case taken by the court these questions become immaterial. It may be added, in passing, that were the question of plaintiff’s contributory negligence material it would be for the jury. We shall assume, however, that a safe place was not furnished and that plaintiff was free from contributory negligence, and dispose of the case on the question of the assumption of…
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