Bauer v. Richter
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: Geo. E. Sutherland, Judge. The defendants Frederick and Ferdincmd Richter were partners under the firm name of F. Richter & Son, doing business as founders and machinists at Milwaukee.
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Appeal from a judgment of the superior court of Milwaukee county: Geo. E. Sutherland, Judge. The defendants Frederick and Ferdincmd Richter were partners under the firm name of F. Richter & Son, doing business as founders and machinists at Milwaukee. They became interested in the business of manufacturing sugar from beets, and thereafter a corporation was formed, in. which the two Richters, Korn, and Jungbluth were the in-corporators, the former owning the majority of the stock. The corporation was known as the “Wisconsin Beet Sugar Company,” and its purpose was the erection and operation of…
1Opinion of the Court
Baereen, X
The chief ground upon which it is sought to overturn this judgment is,that the evidence fails to show that the relation of master and servant existed between the Richters and the men who built the derrick, or who were directing the unloading of the machinery, or with the deceased himself. The complaint alleges that 'deceased was in the employ of the defendants as a common laborer. The proof shows that he was in the general employment of the beet sugar company, and had been ever since the spring before the accident, and, unless the circumstances hereinafter referred to make him the…
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