Horr v. C. W. Howard Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BubNell, Oireu.it Judge. Action by widow, as administratrix, to recover ber damages resulting from death of her husband, Austin ITorr, by reason of negligence of defendant, leaving her two infants dependent on her own labor. Deceased, twenty-one years old, was at work in February, 1904, .in attendance upon defendant’s three digesters in.its sulphite mill.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Winnebago county: Geo. W. BubNell, Oireu.it Judge. Action by widow, as administratrix, to recover ber damages resulting from death of her husband, Austin ITorr, by reason of negligence of defendant, leaving her two infants dependent on her own labor. Deceased, twenty-one years old, was at work in February, 1904, .in attendance upon defendant’s three digesters in.its sulphite mill. The digester is an iron or steel tank, six and one-half feet in diameter by thirty-four feet high, its base being upon the ground floor and its top extending about…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The assignments of error, sixteen in number, may, to much extent, be grouped for purposes of discussion.
1. There are those which deny sufficiency of the evidence to support the material answers to the special verdict on the subject of the existence and knowledge of defects and their efficacy in causing the injury. After careful examination we are convinced that there was at least some evidence tending to show a defective and leaky condition resulting from, and evinced by, the violent’jarring or vibration of the digester and blowpipe and the escape of steam and pulp. There was also' evidence…
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