Paule v. Florence Mining Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Florence County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries. The complaint alleges, in effect, that the plaintiff, being without knowledge as a miner, entered the employment of the defendant as a common laborer, and engaged, in connection with others, in tramming or filling cars with ore in a pit or stope known as “No. 4 Stope,” reached by “Number 4 Shaft,” in the mine of the defendant; that the plaintiff had no duty or care with…
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Florence County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries. The complaint alleges, in effect, that the plaintiff, being without knowledge as a miner, entered the employment of the defendant as a common laborer, and engaged, in connection with others, in tramming or filling cars with ore in a pit or stope known as “No. 4 Stope,” reached by “Number 4 Shaft,” in the mine of the defendant; that the plaintiff had no duty or care with reference to the walls or roof of any part of said mine; that all work done in said stope, whether by the. plaintiff or…
1Opinion of the CourtCassodav, J.
The testimony is voluminous. Only a brief outline of it can be here given, and that will be confined almost wholly to the.testimony of the plaintiff. From his testimony it appears, in effect, that he came to America in 1880 or 1881; that he went to Iron Mountain, Mich., in the spring of 1885; that prior to that his business was farming ; that he worked in a stone quany at Iron Mountain, taking out stone; that he thought his wages too small, and so went and worked shoveling ore on the cars on the surface of a mine at so much a ton; that he remained there about a month, when they raised his…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Naylor v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1881
- Stephenson v. DuncanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1889
- Cole v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1888
- Gill v. HomrighausenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1891
- Sweet v. Ohio Coal CompactWisconsin Supreme Court · 1890
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- Reed v. StockmeyerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1896
- Mielke v. Chicago & Northwesteen Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1899
- Corcoran v. Milwaukee Gas Light Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1892
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