Anderson v. Chicago Brass Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Kenosha ■county: E. B. Beldeh, -Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant sixteen years of ■age, while he was engaged in feeding sheets of -brass, to a machine called the straightening rolls, in the rolling mills of the •defendant at Kenosha.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Kenosha ■county: E. B. Beldeh, -Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff, an employee of the defendant sixteen years of ■age, while he was engaged in feeding sheets of -brass, to a machine called the straightening rolls, in the rolling mills of the •defendant at Kenosha. The machine in question consists of .an iron framework standing on the floor, supporting five metal rollers about six inches in diameter, which revolve by means ■of steam power applied to a pulley at one end of the machine, the…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNsnow, J.
Tbe defendant made a motion for nonsuit at tbe close of tbe plaintiffs evidence, and it now claims that, regardless of any question of error in tbe reception of evidence or charge of tbe court, tbe judgment should be affirmed because tbe plaintiff made no case. Defendant’s contentions on this point 'are, in general, that no negligence was shown-on its part, and that, even conceding that there was any such negligence shown, tbe plaintiff knew, or ought to have known, of the danger, and assumed the risk. Tbe plaintiff claimed negligence in two respects: (1) In not providing tbe machine with a…
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