Baetz v. Valentine-Clark Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown, county: S. D. HastiNGS, Circuit Judge. The defendant is a foreign corporation engaged in dealing in and handling cedar poles and posts in its yard at Green Bay.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Brown, county: S. D. HastiNGS, Circuit Judge. The defendant is a foreign corporation engaged in dealing in and handling cedar poles and posts in its yard at Green Bay. The plaintiff is a laborer employed by defendant, and brings this action charging that he had no experience in the particular work required of him or work of a similar nature- and was ignorant of the dangers incident thereunto and that defendant negligently failed to instruct or warn him of the danger incident to such work, also failed to furnish him -a safe place in which to work…
1Opinion of the CourtTimxiN, J.
The foregoing outline may be supplemented by a few details from the undisputed evidence. The poles in question were the ordinary large telegraph poles, about thirty-five feet long and twelve to fourteen inches in diameter at the larger end. A pile of these lay across skids on the ground, *496tbe pile and skids extending north and sontb and the length of the poles extending east and west. After plaintiff had taken the lower poles which were loose on the skids, it became necessary to tumble down the pile, which was fifteen or sixteen feet high. The superintendent ordered plaintiff to hook onto two…
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- Yezick v. Chicago Brass Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1909
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