Chapman v. Piechowski
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Waushara county: ByeoN B. Pauic, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for injuries he received while in the defendant’s employ doing work as an attendant about the defendant’s threshing machine. At the time of the injury the plaintiff was twenty-two years of age. He had lived and worked on the farm from youth and had worked about threshing-machine outfits as a common laborer.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Waushara county: ByeoN B. Pauic, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff brings this action to recover damages for injuries he received while in the defendant’s employ doing work as an attendant about the defendant’s threshing machine. At the time of the injury the plaintiff was twenty-two years of age. He had lived and worked on the farm from youth and had worked about threshing-machine outfits as a common laborer. In July, 1911, the defendant employed him as a member of his threshing crew, doing work as he directed, such as hauling water, tending the…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, J.
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