Kroger v. Cumberland Fruit Package Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: Eeawk A. Ross, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for a personal injury. Plaintiff stated these facts as a ground for recovery: A few days prior to April, 1910, plaintiff entered the service of defendant as a common laborer in its factory. On that day he was put to work at a planer.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: Eeawk A. Ross, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for a personal injury. Plaintiff stated these facts as a ground for recovery: A few days prior to April, 1910, plaintiff entered the service of defendant as a common laborer in its factory. On that day he was put to work at a planer. His duties in the main were to stand at the front end of the planer, take short boards from a bolting saw near by, and feed them into the machine. Such machine was equipped with a rapidly revolving arbor to which there were two knives suitably attached…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
From the foregoing it will be seen the situation, in brief, which the trial court had to face on the motion to direct a verdict was this: Appellant — at the zenith of maturity for one of his class, a man of some experience working around dangerous machinery and of ordinary opportunity for observation respecting the same and of ordinary intelligence, in the full possession of his faculties, but without experience in operating the particular machine or having had instructions in respect thereto — was put to work feeding boards into an ordinary small planer of ordinary construction. It had but…
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