Reiten v. J. S. Stearns Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: G-. 1ST. Risjord, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injuries..
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: G-. 1ST. Risjord, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injuries.. The plaintiff, a hoy fifteen years and some months of age, was hired hy defendant Saturday, May 27, 1916, to throw edgings from live rollers carrying hoards and edgings, without a permit first having been obtained under sec. 1728a, Stats. 1915. On the following Monday morning he was injured by a hoard carried by the live rollers striking his thigh and inflicting an injury resulting in a bony growth which was removed by a hospital operation on October 9, 1916.…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweilee, J.
The court below submitted but the question of damages for the jury’s consideration, holding, as appears from his written decision herein, that there was an absolute liability on the part of the defendant on both of the two grounds asserted in the complaint; first, on the theory that the defendant was liable because the accident happened while the plaintiff, a minor between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, was employed in defendant’s sawmill without a written permit having first been obtained according to the provisions of sub. 1, sec. 1728a, and secondly, that in addition thereto there was…
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