Winchel v. Goodyear
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Fbuit, Circuit Judge. This action was brought for the recovery of damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff on February 9, 1904, while employed in defendant’s sawmill in the city of Tomah. Defendant’s mill, at the time of the accident, was equipped with two band saws for sawing timber. These saws were located in the west end of the mill near the southwesterly and northwesterly corners, respectively.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Monroe county: J. J. Fbuit, Circuit Judge. This action was brought for the recovery of damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff on February 9, 1904, while employed in defendant’s sawmill in the city of Tomah. Defendant’s mill, at the time of the accident, was equipped with two band saws for sawing timber. These saws were located in the west end of the mill near the southwesterly and northwesterly corners, respectively. The lumber was carried from these band saws on two lines of live rollers, one along the south and the other along the north…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebeckee, J.
The plaintiff claims that the defendant was guilty of negligence in that he failed to keep the table bed over the slasher saw, described in the foregoing statement of facts, sufficiently supported to make it reasonably safe for its purposes in the operation of the mill. Defendant starts with the assertion that plaintiff has wholly failed to make out his case, and then proceeds to argue that no actionable negligence is shown because plaintiff’s injuries were the result of an accidental slipping, which defendant claims occurred without his fault, and which he contends was the proximate cause of…
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