Blazinski v. Perkins
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ma/rinette County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by tbe fall of a scaffold alleged to bave been defectively constructed. Tbe facts will sufficiently appear from tbe opinion. Tbe plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of tbe defendant.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Ma/rinette County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by tbe fall of a scaffold alleged to bave been defectively constructed. Tbe facts will sufficiently appear from tbe opinion. Tbe plaintiff appeals from a judgment in favor of tbe defendant. They contended, inter alia, tbat tbe instructions to tbe jury were in opposition to tbe rule adopted by tbis court, tbat when tbe injury is traceable to tbe primary negligence of tbe defendant, tbe plaintiff’s right of recovery cannot be defeated by showing contributory negligence on tbe part of a…
1Opinion of the CourtOetoN, J.
Tbe defendant was building a brick block, and employed tbe plaintiff and other brick-masons to lay tbe brick, and certain carpenters to do tbe wood-work. It became necessary to build a scaffold on which tbe plaintiff and another mason could stand to lay brick, and two of tbe carpenters, under a foreman, built tbe scaffold in some baste, as tbe masons were waiting for it. Tbe plaintiff stood by and saw tbe work on tbe scaffold done, or at least tbe finishing part of it. There was testimony tbat tbe carpenters bad prepared a brace to be placed in the middle of it, and which they thought was…
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