Guinard v. Knapp-Stout & Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dunn county: John If. Papish, Judge. Personal injuries. The plaintiff was injured while employed in the defendant’s sawmill, July 9, 1892, he being then twenty-seven years of age.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dunn county: John If. Papish, Judge. Personal injuries. The plaintiff was injured while employed in the defendant’s sawmill, July 9, 1892, he being then twenty-seven years of age. He was oiling a rapidly revolving shaft at the time of the injury, and his coat sleeve was caught in a set-screw which projected from the collar upon the shaft, and he was whirled around the shaft, and lost a part of his left arm, and sustained other serious injuries. It appeared that he had previously worked for the defendant company for five seasons; four years,…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, J.
The vital questions which were presented by the pleadings and the evidence in this case were: (1) Whether the defendant was guilty of negligence which was the proximate cause of plaintiff’s injury, either in providing-unsafe machinery or in failing to instruct and warn the-plaintiff of its dangerous character; (2) whether the plaintiff himself was guilty of contributory negligence in not seeing and avoiding the revolving set-screw. Both of these-questions were answered by the jury favorably'to the plaintiff. We regard these questions as fairly questions for the jury and not for the court; and…
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