Isaacson v. Wisconsin Telephone Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal‘from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oeeek T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injury arising under tbe following facts: Plaintiff was employed as helper or assistant cable splicer, in which employment it was the duty of the splicer and himself to go about the system and splice cables, many of" them at a considerable elevation, in which case the work had to be done on one of the telephone poles.
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Appeal‘from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oeeek T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Action for personal injury arising under tbe following facts: Plaintiff was employed as helper or assistant cable splicer, in which employment it was the duty of the splicer and himself to go about the system and splice cables, many of" them at a considerable elevation, in which case the work had to be done on one of the telephone poles. Among the appliances and tools furnished the two men to perform their work was a platform, about four feet square, with a rope about-eight feet long through…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The platform in question was very obviously a mere appliance furnished to plaintiff and his co-worker to be retained by them in their possession like other tools and to be used when necessary in accomplishing the work on which they were employed. Goltz v. M., L. S. & W. R. Co. 76 Wis. 136, 44 N. W. 752; Van den Heuvel v. Nat. F. Co. 84 Wis. 636, 54 N. W. 1016; Hoveland v. Nat. B. Works, 134 Wis. 342, 348, 114 N. W. 795; Butler v. Townsend, 126 N. Y. 105, 26 N. E. 1017; Hutton v. Holdbrook, C. & D. C. Co. 139 Fed. 734. It differed in no degree from a ladder with which to accomplish similar…
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