Greenberg v. Whitcomb Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from orders of the circuit court for Shawano county: Johh G-oodland, Circuit Judge. The duly verified complaint, omitting formal parts, is as follows: “ The above-named plaintiff, by Mylrea, Marchetti & Bird, his attorneys, for a complaint alleges and shows to the court: “ Eirst.
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Appeals from orders of the circuit court for Shawano county: Johh G-oodland, Circuit Judge. The duly verified complaint, omitting formal parts, is as follows: “ The above-named plaintiff, by Mylrea, Marchetti & Bird, his attorneys, for a complaint alleges and shows to the court: “ Eirst. That defendant The Whitcomb Lumber Company at all the times herein mentioned was, and still is, a corporation organized under the laws of Wisconsin, and doing business at Whitcomb, Shawano county, Wisconsin, where, among other things, in its business it operated a certain machine for the purpose of sawing…
1Opinion of the CourtNewmaN, J.
The complaint states, in substance, that the defendant The Whitcomb Lumber Company is a corporation; that the defendant Pandan Semple was one of its officers and its general managing agent; that its business was the manufacturing of timber into firewood; that it operated, in this work, a machine 'which was defective and dangerous; that it knew' the machine to be defective and dangerous; that the defect which rendered it dangerous was that the saw was defectively and insecurely fastened to its shaft; that the plaintiff was employed to work upon or with this machine; that he was inexperienced…
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