Haley v. Jump River Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Columbia County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries received by respondent in a wreck upon a private logging railroad owned and operated by appellant, October 31,1889. Haley was a helper or trainman upon said road, the equipment of the road consisting of an engine and several logging-cars, by which logs were brought from the logging camps to the appellant’s mill at Prentice.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Columbia County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries received by respondent in a wreck upon a private logging railroad owned and operated by appellant, October 31,1889. Haley was a helper or trainman upon said road, the equipment of the road consisting of an engine and several logging-cars, by which logs were brought from the logging camps to the appellant’s mill at Prentice. At the time of the accident the engine was drawing five cars or logging trucks loaded with logs over the road towards Prentice. Haley was riding on the forward end of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was' filed February 2, 1892:
WiNslow, J."
The ears upon the private logging railroad in question are constructed simply for the purpose of carrying logs. They consist of a pair of railway trucks, upon which rests a frame-work of strong timber, without floor. Near each end of the car, and immediately over the middle of each truck, is a strong timber about nine feet in length, and which is called the “ bunk.” Upon these two bunks, which run transversely, the logs are rolled. When the bunk is full, or nearly so, with one layer, another layer is begun, which naturally contains…
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