Coolidge v. Hallauer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: J. J. Eeuit, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The defendant owned and operated a pearl button factory at La Crosse, and at the time of the accident, March 14, 1904, the plaintiff, a man twenty-eight years of age, was an employee in the factory, and had been such for nearly three years.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for La Crosse county: J. J. Eeuit, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The defendant owned and operated a pearl button factory at La Crosse, and at the time of the accident, March 14, 1904, the plaintiff, a man twenty-eight years of age, was an employee in the factory, and had been such for nearly three years. He operated a machine propelled by line shafting, known as a Berry sawing machine, which cuts out the button blanks from clam shells. This machine is somewhat similar in appearance to an ordinary lathe,…
1Opinion of the Court
Wifslow, T.
The jury found by the special verdict that the machine was not reasonably safe for use, and that the plaintiff’s injury was not a mere accident, but was the natural and probable result of such unsafe condition of the machine, and should have been foreseen by a person of ordinary care and prudence. If the verdict stopped here, it seems that a judgment for the defendant would necessarily follow, because the plaintiff well knew the defective condition of the machine; but the jury went further, and found that a promise to repair the machine had been made by defendant’s foreman, and…
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