Sempier v. Goemann
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeae from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: Hehby Graass, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment in favor of plaintiff. The plaintiff was injured while decking or piling logs at Cisco lake, Michigan, in February, 1914. The defendants had a general logging contract to take out and pile these logs.
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Appeae from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown county: Hehby Graass, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from a judgment in favor of plaintiff. The plaintiff was injured while decking or piling logs at Cisco lake, Michigan, in February, 1914. The defendants had a general logging contract to take out and pile these logs. The so-called decking operation was done by the use of a V-shaped frame about twenty feet high resting on another frame, the point of the V upwards, with a pulley at the top and another at the bottom. A rope through these pulleys was attached to the center of a cable a little…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
Upon the respondent’s application to review the order of the court below in opening the default, we are satisfied that in so doing the court acted well within the field of judicial discretion and therefore respondent’s request must be denied.
On defendants’ appeal it is urged in substance that the record established as a matter of law that at the time of the injury plaintiff was employed by an independent contractor, James Cherf; that no actionable negligence was shown or found by the jury; and that the court improperly admitted evidence as to statements made by one Thompson, alleged to be…
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