Kreider v. Wisconsin River Paper & Pulp Co.

Cassoday, O. J.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ -of the defendant, July 15, 1896, and at work upon a paper winder, being a machine which wound the finished paper as fast as it was manufactured upon spools or bobbins, and consisted of two upright standards or supports about forty inches in height, securely fastened to the floor opposite each other, and about ten feet apart. Upon the upper end of each such standards there was a shaft box or socket about two and one-half inches wide and four inches long, each box being in…