Freeman v. Dells Paper & Pulp Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rusk county: Joi-iet 3L Pabish, Judge. Action for personal injury sustained by the plaintiff on the 11th. day of March, 1908, while, it is claimed, he was an employee of the defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Rusk county: Joi-iet 3L Pabish, Judge. Action for personal injury sustained by the plaintiff on the 11th. day of March, 1908, while, it is claimed, he was an employee of the defendant. The complaint contains appropriate allegations of the failure on the part of the defendant to discharge various duties owing to the plaintiff, including the failure to furnish a reasonably safe place to work, reasonably safe implements or equipments with which to work; failure to furnish a competent superintendent, competent fellow-servants, and sufficient number…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed April 3, 1912:
Viitje, J.
Defendant claims the evidence does not sustain the finding, that it had taken charge of the logging operations in Mechling’s camp' at the time plaintiff was injured, and hence that the relation of master and servant did not exist between the parties. Plaintiff’s evidence on this subject was to the effect that Patrick was an experienced woodsman and cruiser who had been employed by the defendant for seven or eight years; that from the time he went up there about the 1st of March he remained almost continuously till the injury occurred on…
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