Szeliwicki v. Connor Lumber & Land Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Marathon county: A. H. Eeid, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by the plaintiff while a servant of the .defendant. The defendant owns and operates a sawmill and lumber yard at Laona, Wisconsin. This yard consists of driveways or alleys with piles of lumber on both sides.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Marathon county: A. H. Eeid, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by the plaintiff while a servant of the .defendant. The defendant owns and operates a sawmill and lumber yard at Laona, Wisconsin. This yard consists of driveways or alleys with piles of lumber on both sides. The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant company and at the time in question was working about the yard picking up loose lumber or boards under the direction of the yard foreman. The foreman put him to work near a pile of…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed February 22, 1916:
Siebboicee, J.
1. It is held in this case that the finding of the jury to the effect’that plaintiff, while in defendant’s employ at the place and on the occasion in question, was struck and injured by a board thrown by one of defendant’s employees in the course of loading boards from a lumber pile onto a vragon, is sustained by the evidence. The evidence of the *23plaintiff and tbe facts and circumstance's of tbe injury presented an issue for determination by a jury.
2. Tbe second question of tbe special verdict required tbe jury to determine…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Howard v. Beldenville Lumber Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1908
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lambrecht v. HolsapleWisconsin Supreme Court · 1916