Nyback v. Champagne Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to (he Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. This was an action by a servant against his master for a personal injury alleged to have resulted from the defendant’s negligence. A verdict for defendant was directed by the court, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The one question on this record is whether the circuit court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant. The action was brought by John Nyback, the plaintiff in error, to recover damages for a personal injury suffered while at work in a sawmill of the Champagne Lumber Company, the defendant in error, on July 12, 3892. The substance of the declaration is: That on and prior to the date mentioned the defendant owned, at the city of Merrill, Wis., a sawmill, in which, besides other machinery and appliances, there was a slasher, used for the purpose of sawing slabs and…
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- Nyback v. Champagne Lumber Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Wisconsin · 1903