Bellart v. Martell

The safe-place statute, sec. 101.06, Stats., requires every owner of a place of employment or a public building to construct and maintain it so as to render the same as free from danger as the nature of the employment, place of employment, or public building, will reasonably permit. The learned circuit judge instructed the jury that Martell had this duty, under the circumstances of this case, both because the plant was a place of employment and a public building. If the instruction was correct with respect to its being a place of employment, it would be unnecessary to examine its status as a…