Halwas v. American Granite Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee cbunty: Warren I). Tarrant, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries. The plaintiff was-in the employ of the defendant as a stonecutter, and at the-time of the injury was engaged in lettering a monument or-section thereof.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee cbunty: Warren I). Tarrant, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries. The plaintiff was-in the employ of the defendant as a stonecutter, and at the-time of the injury was engaged in lettering a monument or-section thereof. The complaint alleges that at and prior to-the accident the defendant’s plant was provided with a traveling crane for lifting and moving from one part of the shop to another heavy stones and parts of monuments while in the-process of manufacture; that a special gang of employees-was~ engaged in this…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed December 7, 1909:
Kerwin, J.
The evidence produced upon the trial tends to show that the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant as a letterer and stonecutter in what was known as the Russell avenue shop, which is about 300 feet long north, and south and from seventy-five to eighty feet wide east and west. The floor had been leveled by taking about six inches of the ground from the south end to- the north with scrapers. The plaintiff at the time of the accident was' engaged in lettering various •sections of a large monument known as the Kosciusko monument.…
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