Kuich v. Milwaukee Bag Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: Obren T. Williams, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to be due to the negligence of the defendant. The defendant is a corporation engaged in the manufacture and printing of bags. Martha Kuich was fourteen years and seven months old at the time she was injured.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: Obren T. Williams, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to be due to the negligence of the defendant. The defendant is a corporation engaged in the manufacture and printing of bags. Martha Kuich was fourteen years and seven months old at the time she was injured. She was about four feet seven and one-half inches in height and weighed between eighty-five and ninety pounds. Her right eye had been removed when she was two years old and she had worn a glass eye in the socket since she…
1Opinion of the Court
, The following opinion was filed March 9, 1909:
Siebecker, J.
It is claimed that the defendant negligently permitted and exacted labor from the plaintiff which she, in view of her tender years, was incapable of performing for want of sufficient physical strength and because of excessive fatigue. The facts disclose, as above stated, that plaintiff had been engaged in operating bag-printing machines and that her work consisted in feeding bags into the printing machines. She had performed this service for several months prior to the day of the accident, and so far as shown performed the service…
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