Polaski v. Pittsburgh Coal Dock Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
'Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas-county: A. J. ViNje, Circuit Judge. The defendant maintained a coal dock at the city of Superior about 900 feet in length and 300 feet in width, in the center whereof were three longitudinal railroad tracks-for the loading and moving of railroad cars, upon which cars-were frequently in motion, usually moved by attaching a hook to them and gripping unto a moving cable beside each track.
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'Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas-county: A. J. ViNje, Circuit Judge. The defendant maintained a coal dock at the city of Superior about 900 feet in length and 300 feet in width, in the center whereof were three longitudinal railroad tracks-for the loading and moving of railroad cars, upon which cars-were frequently in motion, usually moved by attaching a hook to them and gripping unto a moving cable beside each track. It was necessary and customary for the workmen on the dock to pass frequently across these tracks, which were in a depression about four feet deep. The…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
In a business conducted by many employees performing work independently of each other and in which the work of one becomes periodically dangerous to another, it is the duty of the master to provide reasonable precautions against such danger, and amongst these is promulgating rules and regulations for the giving of warning to the persons likely to be endangered when such dangerous acts are about to be performed. Promer v. Milwaukee, L. S. & W. R. Co. 90 Wis. 215, 63 N. W. 90; Portance v. Lehigh Valley C. Co. 101 Wis. 574, 77 N. W. 875; Bain v. N. P. R. Co. 120 Wis. 412, 981 N. W. 241; 1…
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