Anderson v. Hayes
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from orders of the superior court of Douglas 'County: Charles Smith, Judge. These actions are actions for personal injuries, the complaints being identical. General demurrers to each complaint were overruled, and the defendant appeals.
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Appeals from orders of the superior court of Douglas 'County: Charles Smith, Judge. These actions are actions for personal injuries, the complaints being identical. General demurrers to each complaint were overruled, and the defendant appeals. The complaint in each case charges that in 1896 the defendant erected an iron-manufacturing shop in the city of ■Superior, equipped with the necessary machinery, including .a cupola or furnace room, an elevator, and the necessary appliances therefor, the elevator being intended to be used in connection with the furnace for the purpose of carrying-ore…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNslow, J.
These are actions by the employees of a tenant against the landlord for injuries resulting, as it is. claimed, from a concealed defect in the demised premises, known to the landlord, but not known by, nor disclosed to, the tenant, nor capable of being ascertained by the tenant, by a reasonably careful examination of the premises. The> principle is well settled that a tenant takes leased premises-in the condition in which they happen to be when leased, and that the landlord is not liable to the tenant for injuries-resulting from lack of repair unless he has contracted to repair, or unless the…
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