Harsen v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vinje, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries-claimed to he due to the negligence of an employee of the-defendant. The defendant was reconstructing a bridge in the city of Superior over which its track lay. A platform had been constructed beside the track about 100 to 150 feet from the site of the bridge and was being used in the construction work.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vinje, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries-claimed to he due to the negligence of an employee of the-defendant. The defendant was reconstructing a bridge in the city of Superior over which its track lay. A platform had been constructed beside the track about 100 to 150 feet from the site of the bridge and was being used in the construction work. The platform was about forty feet long, ten feet wide, and six feet high. A number of large square timbers of which the framework of the bridge…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeckee, J.
The appellant insists that the foregoing facts do not tend to show, as the jury found, that the foreman, Shaw, was negligent and that such negligence was the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injuries. The facts show that the plaintiff was injured by the sliding of the skid :.and its collision with the timber lying near it. It is a reasonable inference from the evidence, as claimed by the plaintiff, that Shaw caused the skid to slide and injure the ■plaintiff by the push which it is testified he gave it while plaintiff had hold of the lower end and was waiting to assist in taking it off the…
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