Helmke v. Thilmany

Cassoday, O. J.

This action was commenced September '9, 1897, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant as a ■cutter boy in his paper mill at Kaukauna, March 31, 1896, whereby his right hand and arm were caught and crushed between the revolving cogwheels, and so injured as to render" amputation thereof necessary three inches below the ■elbow. The grounds upon which the plaintiff seeks a recovery are that such cogwheels were unguarded, and unnec-essarily and unreasonably dangerous, and because of the plaintiff’s youth, inexperience,…