Kosidowski v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: WabbeN D. TabeaNT, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: WabbeN D. TabeaNT, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for the death of plaintiff’s intestate. There was evidence to this effect: May 27, 1909, the intestate, a married man, while working for defendant at $1.75 per day laying water mains, using a derrick to lower the sections into place, was so injured by a going to pieces of the appliance and fall of the parts that be died, August 23, 1909. He suffered between the time of accident and death. The action was twofold: 1st, for damages caused to surviving relatives ; 2d, for damages…
1Opinion of the Court
*225The following opinion, was filed December 10, 1912:
Makshall, J.
The dominant question on this appeal is whether a case was made within sec. 1636—81, Stats. (Supp. 1906: Laws of 1901, ch. 257). That is ruled in respondent’s favor by the reasoning and result in Koepp v. Nat. E. & S. Co. 151 Wis. 302, 139 N. W. 179. The legislative purpose of the statute is there definitely declared. There is no need of going over the ground again. By the broad meaning ■of the section, as intended by the lawmakers, and determined in the highest court of the state where the enactment originated, Caddy v.…
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