Smith v. Winnebago Realty Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Price county: MaetiN L. Luece, Judge. Tbis action was brought to recover for personal injury sustained in September, 1909, by plaintiff while engaged in defendant’s planing mill, which injury resulted in the loss of plaintiffs right arm and other injuries.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Price county: MaetiN L. Luece, Judge. Tbis action was brought to recover for personal injury sustained in September, 1909, by plaintiff while engaged in defendant’s planing mill, which injury resulted in the loss of plaintiffs right arm and other injuries. In defendant’s mill was machinery used for the purpose of manufacturing patent lath, which consisted in part of a shaft with a couple of small saws thereon located about three and three-fourths inches from the end of such shaft, on the end of which shaft was a nut or burr having a rough,…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 11, 1913:
Kerwin, J.
Error is assigned because the court below changed the answers of the jury to questions 1 and 5 of the special verdict'. ' It is insisted on the part of the appellant that the answers to these questions are supported by the evidence, therefore the court committed reversible error in changing them. At the time of the injury the plaintiff was fifty years of age and had worked about machinery in mills for many years, but had never worked at a matcher machine until about two days before the injury. The matcher machine stood east and west in…
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