Langos v. Menasha Paper Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Ashland county: G. N. Risjoed, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while working for the defendant in its paper mill at Menasha. The plaintiff, Joseph Langos, had been a mechanic for fifteen years. Eor a number of years preceding the accident he had been doing the work of a fireman and engineer on stationary engines.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Ashland county: G. N. Risjoed, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while working for the defendant in its paper mill at Menasha. The plaintiff, Joseph Langos, had been a mechanic for fifteen years. Eor a number of years preceding the accident he had been doing the work of a fireman and engineer on stationary engines. He entered the defendant’s employment as fireman and worked at that for about á month, and in February, 1911, he began work as millwright in defendant’s mill, which was…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeoKbe, J.
The defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying its motions for a nonsuit and for a direction of the verdict in its favor, upon the grounds that the evidence in the case shows that the defendant furnished plaintiff a safe place of employment and that it adopted and used such methods and processes as were reasonably adequate to render his employment and place of employment safe. The statutes governing the case are embraced in ch. 485, Laws of 1911. The section of this chapter which controls the rights of the parties has been considered in recent cases, and we refer to the case of…
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