Propsom v. Leatham
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Door County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants on July 5, 1888, and alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence in permitting their dock upon which the plaintiff was at work to become and remain out of repair and in an unsafe condition. The principal facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Door County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants on July 5, 1888, and alleged to have been caused by the defendants’ negligence in permitting their dock upon which the plaintiff was at work to become and remain out of repair and in an unsafe condition. The principal facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. The testimony of the witness Wead there referred to was to the effect that in the summer of 1888, prior to the accident, there were a good many holes in the dock where the…
1Opinion of the Court
Oole, 0. J.
As tbis was an action for damages for a personal injury received by tbe plaintiff while at work for the defendants on their dock, it is very obvious it was most proper for the trial court to instruct the jury as to the duty of the defendants to provide a reasonably safe place for the plaintiff to work, as well as his duty to exercise due care to avoid an injury. The charge of the court upon these points is quite full, and seems to us unobjectionable. It is.certainly not justly open to the criticism made upon it by defendants’ counsel, as being misleading. This general remark is…
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