Van de Bogart v. Marinette & Menominee Paper Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
‘Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marinette county: B. E. Dunwiddie, Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff August 24, 1903, when she was fifteen years of age and while in the employ of the defendant,, where she had been at work in its paper machine room No. 1 as cutter girl about four weeks.
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‘Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marinette county: B. E. Dunwiddie, Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff August 24, 1903, when she was fifteen years of age and while in the employ of the defendant,, where she had been at work in its paper machine room No. 1 as cutter girl about four weeks. The circumstances under which she was injured are stated in the brief of counsel for the defendant to the effect that the machine upon which she was employed and upon which she was injured was provided with numerous rolls for conveying…
1Opinion of the Court
Cassoday, O. J.
This case was here upon a former appeal. 127 Wis. 104-113, 106 N. W. 805. The special verdict considered on that appeal was substantially the same as on this appeal, except that the damages were less. Pages 107, 108. On that appeal the judgment was reversed on the sole ground that the instructions to the jury were general on questions of ultimate fact, and “plainly informed them of the legal effect of their findings on negligence, contributory negligence, and assumption of risk.” Pages 110, 111. It is claimed that in charging the jury on the last trial the court fell into the…
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