Radmann v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wtmhesha County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while operating a grain shovel at one of the defendant’s elevators in the city of Milwaukee. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wtmhesha County. Action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while operating a grain shovel at one of the defendant’s elevators in the city of Milwaukee. The facts will sufficiently appear from the opinion. At the close of the testimony the court directed a verdict in favor of the defendant, and from the judgment entered thereon the plaintiff appeals. to the point that it was error for the court to direct a verdict for defendant, cited, besides cases referred to in the opinion, Weybwm v. Kipp, 63 Mich. 79; Gower v. G., M. dk St.…
1Opinion of the CourtObtojst, J.
The facts are substantially and briefly as follows :
The defendant company owned and operated in the city of Milwaukee, among other elevators, elevator B for loading, unloading, storing, and shipping grain. The elevators are subdivided into stalls or divisions for unloading and dumping grain from cars. In order to unload the grain from the cars into elevator B, a certain shaft running through the entire length of the elevator is set in motion by a steam-engine, which shaft is provided at each stall or division with a pulley, round which is a coil of heavy rope, attached to a sort of a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Behm v. ArmourWisconsin Supreme Court · 1883
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- Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Dairyland Mutual InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1956
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