Sadowski v. Thomas Furnace Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county:W. J. TubNee, Circuit Judge. Action by the personal representative of John Sadowski, deceased, to recover compensation for his death. The deceased, while in the employ of the defendant, came to his end by a large quantity of iron ore, compacted by freezing into a hard mass, rolling down from the top of a bank, at the foot of which he was working.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county:W. J. TubNee, Circuit Judge. Action by the personal representative of John Sadowski, deceased, to recover compensation for his death. The deceased, while in the employ of the defendant, came to his end by a large quantity of iron ore, compacted by freezing into a hard mass, rolling down from the top of a bank, at the foot of which he was working. His duties required him to assist in transferring iron ore from a large mound thereof by wheeled vehicles to a furnace. The mound was around twenty feet high. The operation of removing…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed March 17, 1914:
Maeshall, J.
Questions raised by appellant’s counsel and not mentioned in this opinion, are to be regarded as having been passed as not of sufficient consequence to merit a place in the record of this case.
The faults which the jury found defendant guilty of, resulting in decedent’s death, were failure to perform the statutory duties of an employer to furnish his employee a place of employment “as free from dangers to life and safety as the-*447nature of tbe employment would reasonably permit” and ■“adopt and use methods and processes reasonably…
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