Odegard v. North Wisconsin Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Sawyer county: W. C. Silveethoem, Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff April 21, 1902, while employed in defendant’s sawmill at Hayward, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Sawyer county: W. C. Silveethoem, Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff April 21, 1902, while employed in defendant’s sawmill at Hayward, Wisconsin. On the day named the plaintiff was working as a rider upon one of the saw carriages in the mill, which carriage was operated by means of what is known as a steam feed, which lets steam into a long cylinder in which a piston works, which is attached to the carriage and propels it very rapidly forward and back past a band saw, thus sawing lumber from…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
A question of jurisdiction arises at the threshold of the case which must be first examined.
The action was commenced in Sawyer county. This county at that time had two terms a year, one commencing on the first Monday in June and the other on the second Monday in November. The summons was served June 11, 1904, and hence the action was not triable at the June term. The answer was served in August following. On the 6th day of October, 1904, an affidavit alleging prejudice of the presiding judge was filed by the defendant, and at the same time an order to show cause, returnable October 17th, was…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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