Van Dinter v. Worden-Allen Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. Action for .personal injuries. The defendant was engaged in building an addition to the plant of the Power & Mining Machinery Company, at the village of Cudahy, under an independent contract. The plaintiff, a man forty-four years of age, who had worked at the carpenter trade for twenty-eight years, was employed by defendant as sucb carpenter and joiner.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. TueNee, Circuit Judge. Action for .personal injuries. The defendant was engaged in building an addition to the plant of the Power & Mining Machinery Company, at the village of Cudahy, under an independent contract. The plaintiff, a man forty-four years of age, who had worked at the carpenter trade for twenty-eight years, was employed by defendant as sucb carpenter and joiner. On tbe 6tb of July, 1910, plaintiff was directed by tbe defendant to receive, place, and lay in tbe third story of tbe building then under…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 10, 1912:
Vinje, J.
There is practically no dispute in the evidence as to how plaintiff was injured. The statement of facts shows precisely what happened and how it happened. The legs of a hoist, which was required to support a weight of from 350 to 400 pounds, in addition to a portion of its own weight, rested upon the ends of two one-inch horizontal boards in front of their support — the rear ends being unfastened. It is apparent that the fastening of the tail end of the plank of the hoist would have no tendency whatever to prevent the weight on the…
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