Mahnke v. Ahles

Allan Mahnke was not a trespasser by reason of his being in the workshop near the machine at the time of his injury, because he entered and was present pursuant to the actual or implied permission of the appellant’s employee in charge of the premises. The respondent contends that Julia Ahles is liable under the safe-place statute, sec. 101.06, for failing to provide a place of employment which was as free from danger to frequenters as the nature thereof reasonably permitted, thus violating the safe-place statute.

The machine on which respondent was injured is an ice-cutting machine. When a…