Benson v. Superior Manufacturing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court of Douglas county: Chaeles Smith, Judge. Tbe defendant is a corporation doing business in tbe city of Superior and is engaged in tbe manufacturing of lime and other building materials, and in tbe conduct of its business uses and maintains a dock on tbe Bay of Superior in said city, at wbieb dock steamboats are moored and cargoes of stone unloaded therefrom.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe superior court of Douglas county: Chaeles Smith, Judge. Tbe defendant is a corporation doing business in tbe city of Superior and is engaged in tbe manufacturing of lime and other building materials, and in tbe conduct of its business uses and maintains a dock on tbe Bay of Superior in said city, at wbieb dock steamboats are moored and cargoes of stone unloaded therefrom. Tbe equipment in use for tbe unloading of said stone consists of two hoisting rigs or towers about seventy feet high in whith machinery operated by steam is located. From this tower a movable…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeNes, J.
Forty-five errors are assigned by the appellant in this case. While a number of them are grouped and argued together, still the array is quite formidable, at least as do numbers. We shall discuss such of the errors relied on as we think merit notice. The fact that many of them will be passed over without discussion does not indicate that they were not considered, but only that their discussion would not 'he beneficial.
The first error argued is that the evidence fails to show any *24negligence on the part of the defendant. ' The hook used in hoisting the buckets of stone at the time of the…
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