Molin v. Wisconsin Land & Lumber Co.

The case made by the declaration *525is briefly stated. Defendant owned a small building used as a blacksmith shop. Plaintiff with others, including one David Larson, was employed by Alfred Paulson to load forest products upon cars in the vicinity of the shop. Defendant permitted Paulson’s men to use the shop for warming and eating dinner and to make a fire in a stove in the shop. Defendant kept and maintained in the shop, in a can, a quantity of gasoline, or benzine, or naphtha. There are three counts in the declaration, varied by alleging in one that the can contained gasoline, in another that…