Koepp v. National Enameling & Stamping Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Warren D. Tarrant, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for a personal injury. Plaintiff, an employee of defendant, fell from an eleven-foot ladder standing on a platform, raised some twenty feet above the floor of the room where the operations were in progress, and resting against a beam so as to enable him to ascend within reach of the ceiling. The fall was caused by the supports of the platform collapsing.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Warren D. Tarrant, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for a personal injury. Plaintiff, an employee of defendant, fell from an eleven-foot ladder standing on a platform, raised some twenty feet above the floor of the room where the operations were in progress, and resting against a beam so as to enable him to ascend within reach of the ceiling. The fall was caused by the supports of the platform collapsing. He was seriously injured. The allegations as to defendant’s breach of duty were put in issue. The evidence proved or tended…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
All of the many questions presented for consideration, except a few, may well be passed as involving errors, if errors at all, which were not fatally prejudicial,, since it does not satisfactorily appear that, had they not occurred, the result might, probably, have been more favorable to the party complaining. That is the rule of the written law. Very likely such was the purpose of sec. 2829 of the Statutes though, it must be admitted, that until the legislative will was again unmistakably expressed by ch. 192, Laws of 1909 (sec. 3072m, Stats.), some fifty years after its being first…
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