Routt v. Look
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county. Oscar M. Fritz, Circuit Judge. Personal injury. The defendant Samuel Look was engaged in the junk business, and his son, Joseph Look, twenty-four or twenty-five years of age, was his employee. On the 17th day of June, 1920, the defendant Samuel Look, with the assistance of another employee, loaded a truck of the type known as Smith Form A truck with junk and lumber.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county. Oscar M. Fritz, Circuit Judge. Personal injury. The defendant Samuel Look was engaged in the junk business, and his son, Joseph Look, twenty-four or twenty-five years of age, was his employee. On the 17th day of June, 1920, the defendant Samuel Look, with the assistance of another employee, loaded a truck of the type known as Smith Form A truck with junk and lumber. When loaded the load was as high as the cab on the truck. The work of loading was completed about 12 o’clock m. The loaded truck stood in the alley between Tenth…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 9, 1923:
RoseNBErry, J.
The question presented here is: Does the evidence sustain the finding of the jury to the effect that the defendant Joseph Look knew, before Stephen Routt was injured, that he was riding on the side of the truck in a perilous position? There is an irreconcilable conflict in the testimony given by the little boys and that given by Joseph Look, the driver of the truck, at the time the injury occurred. The jury having found in favor of the plaintiff, we accept as true the testimony given by the ‘boys and limit. our consideration of the…
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