Strehlau v. John Schroeder Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: E. C. Hig-bee, Judge. In December, 1908, defendant was erecting a sawmill 196 feet long north and south by sixty feet wide by the labor of its own employees.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: E. C. Hig-bee, Judge. In December, 1908, defendant was erecting a sawmill 196 feet long north and south by sixty feet wide by the labor of its own employees. The work had progressed so that at least part of the timbers of the second floor were in place, and a strip of flooring some four to six feet wide bad been laid southerly from the north end about the middle of the building for the purpose of a runway to carry back timbers, presumably for the further construction of that floor. At the south end of the building and opposite…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The evidence, in which there is very little dispute, is conclusive against either negligence or any failure of duty on the part of the defendant. The situation is the usual ■one of an entirely safe place — that is, a proper site — being furnished to a force of employees upon which they are to construct a building with materials in which no defect or unfitness is suggested. Of course, as the work upon which they are mutually engaged progresses, perils arise. The moment any timber is elevated from the ground there is a degree of unsafety, for it may drop or swing to the injury of some of the…
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