Ruck v. Milwaukee Brewery Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: LaweeNCE W. Halsey,. Circuit Judge. Action for personal injuries. Plaintiff at tbe time of bis injury, July 3,1907, was a young man sixteen years of age and of average intelligence. Defendant was tbe owner of a brewery, wherein it manufactured and bottled beer.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: LaweeNCE W. Halsey,. Circuit Judge. Action for personal injuries. Plaintiff at tbe time of bis injury, July 3,1907, was a young man sixteen years of age and of average intelligence. Defendant was tbe owner of a brewery, wherein it manufactured and bottled beer. Previous to the sale thereof the beer was put through a sterilizing process which consisted in placing about 1,800 filled and corked bottled in layers separated by iron sheets in a vat or tank into which cold water was let. Later, steam was injected and the temperature…
1Opinion of the CourtViNjb, J.
The complaint, among other charges of negligence against the defendant, contains an allegation that hot-*407ties, while being taken from the pasteurizing vat and while standing still on the tray after being taken therefrom, would occasionally explode; that defendant knew, or in the exercise of ordinary care ought to have known, of such explosions; that the plaintiff did not know, and could not in the exercise of ordinary care have known, thereof; and that it was the duty of the defendant to warn him of such danger incident to his employment.
Plaintiff testified that the bottle that exploded and…
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