Deaton v. Unit Crane & Shovel Corp.

Not only did the learned trial court submit the question in the special verdict relating to the negligence of defendant’s crane operator under the safe-place statute (sec. 101.06, Stats.), but the court also instructed the jury on defendant’s liability under such statute. In such instructions the trial court also defined the phrase “as free from danger to him [plaintiff] as the nature or place of employment would reasonably permit,” which is a close approximation of the language employed in sec. 101.01 (11) in defining the term “safe.”

We consider such submission of defendant’s negligence on…