Van de Bogart v. Marinette & Menominee Paper Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marinette •county: S. D. HastiNgs, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages wbicb plaintiff claims sbe sustained while in defendant’s employ through defendant’s negligence. The defendant is an incorporated company and owned and operated a paper mill at Marinette at the time the injury is alleged to have been done. The plaintiff was-employed -by the defendant in June, 1903, and was injured on August 24th following.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marinette •county: S. D. HastiNgs, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages wbicb plaintiff claims sbe sustained while in defendant’s employ through defendant’s negligence. The defendant is an incorporated company and owned and operated a paper mill at Marinette at the time the injury is alleged to have been done. The plaintiff was-employed -by the defendant in June, 1903, and was injured on August 24th following. She was. fifteen years of age and had actually worked as a cutter girl at one of defendant’s paper machines for four weeks…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebegkeR, J.
It is urged that plaintiff assumed the risk •of the negligence of which she complains as the cause of her injury. If she knew, or under the circumstances ought to have known, the danger of which she now complains as negli.gence, then she assumed the risk and cannot recover. There is no dispute but that she was in the proper place for the per-*109formau.ee of ber duty at tbe time of tbe accident. Sbe bad but little general knowledge of maebinery and sbe did not understand tbe relation of one part to tbe others. Sbe bad no-special knowledge of tbe construction and operation of the machine in…
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