Massy v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: LawbeNce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. Oil May 13, 1907, plaintiff’s decedent, then twenty years of age, bad been employed for a month as lineman’s helper by the defendant, his work consisting in the handling of apparatus and materials to facilitate the lineman; deceased working on the ground and the lineman both on the ground and on the poles. Deceased had never handled live wires.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: LawbeNce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. Oil May 13, 1907, plaintiff’s decedent, then twenty years of age, bad been employed for a month as lineman’s helper by the defendant, his work consisting in the handling of apparatus and materials to facilitate the lineman; deceased working on the ground and the lineman both on the ground and on the poles. Deceased had never handled live wires. On that date decedent’s lineman and some other employees' went to .West Allis to readjust the wires and change brackets in a certain region. The wires…
1Opinion of the Court
Tte following opinion was filed May 24, 1910:
Dodge, J.
This case presents a situation not unfamiliar but of rather recent development since the greatly enlarged use of electricity transmitted over wires for tbe creation of light and power at various and remote places. There, as we know, men are constantly employed in stringing, connecting, repairing, and rearranging such wires, sometimes on one post and sometimes on another. When the wires on or about which such men must work are highly charged with electricity they endanger the men. The place of work becomes, in some degree, unsafe. On whom…
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