Faber v. C. Reiss Coal Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Calumet county: Geo. W. Buketell, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a special verdict in an action for damages 'which plaintiff alleges he sustained through defendant’s negligence. Defendant is a corporation engaged in the coal business at Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Calumet county: Geo. W. Buketell, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a special verdict in an action for damages 'which plaintiff alleges he sustained through defendant’s negligence. Defendant is a corporation engaged in the coal business at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In conducting its business it maintains coal docks in that city, located on the river’s edge, facilitating the business of transferring coal from boats to its docks. At the time of the accident, plaintiff, thirty-one years of age, was possessed of good 'health,…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeokee, J.
Plaintiff was awarded judgment upon a verdict which found that defendant failed in furnishing plaintiff a reasonably safe place to work, and that such negligence on defendant’s part was the proximate cause of plaintiff’s injuries and consequent damages. The specific negligence found by the jury was that defendant was guilty of a want of ordinary care in failing to properly light the platform and in failing to erect a barrier or railing along the edge of the platform, from which plaintiff fell while he was engaged as an employee in conducting defendant’s business. The question is, Do these…
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