Dixon v. Russell
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: Frank A. Ross, Circuit Judge. Action for a personal injury. On August 13, 1912, defendants were engaged in tbe work of paving and’repairing streets in tbe city of Superior, and plaintiff, a stationary engineer, was employed ¡by tbem to operate a machine for making concrete. Tbe machine was mounted upon four wheels and a framework extending from front to back.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: Frank A. Ross, Circuit Judge. Action for a personal injury. On August 13, 1912, defendants were engaged in tbe work of paving and’repairing streets in tbe city of Superior, and plaintiff, a stationary engineer, was employed ¡by tbem to operate a machine for making concrete. Tbe machine was mounted upon four wheels and a framework extending from front to back. Tbe right-hand side of the machine, facing toward the front, was the engineer’s side. The material was mixed in a revolving drum, which was about four feet three inches…
1Opinion of the CourtViNjE, J.
The first error assigned is the refusal of the court to permit several of the jurors to be examined as 'to their business relations or connections, if any, with the Royal Insurance Company or with the Casualty Company of America. Questions well calculated to disclose the business relations, if any, of the jurors with these two companies or their local agents were put to them in various forms by counsel for plaintiff, and the objections thereto were in each case sustained by the court. The array was challenged. Counsel did not'claim upon the trial, nor is there now any claim or suggestion,…
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