Stork v. Charles Stolper Cooperage Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for- Milwaukee county: Laweeitce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. On January 25, 1900, the plaintiff was employed in defendant’s cooperage factory upon a certain machine. He was then nineteen years of age, considerably experienced with machinery, and had worked about six months in defendant’s factory, and on numerous occasions with the machine in question.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for- Milwaukee county: Laweeitce W. Halsey, Circuit Judge. On January 25, 1900, the plaintiff was employed in defendant’s cooperage factory upon a certain machine. He was then nineteen years of age, considerably experienced with machinery, and had worked about six months in defendant’s factory, and on numerous occasions with the machine in question. A transverse shaft ran across the machine, having at one end an exposed gearing, and, about four inches from the gearing, passed through a box or journal, the top of which was fastened down with bolts…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
1. The first assignment of error involves, primarily, the assertion that there was no credible evidence upon which the jury might have reached their conclusions expressed in the special verdict. With- this we cannot agree. While on many of these questions -there was substantial conflict and, perhaps, what we might deem a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, there was at least some evidence in support of each of the answers, except perhaps the third, which, however, is immaterial in presence of the finding of defendant’s actual knowledge of the defect in the wrench.
2. It is strenuously…
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