Andrzejewski v. Northwestern Fuel Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tire circuit court for Douglas county: Eeakk A. Eoss, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for a personal injury, causing, as claimed, tire deatli of plaintiff’s intestate. The complaint contained two causes of action, — one for damages to the deceased and one for damages to his surviving mother. The intestate, December 7, 1911, was an employee of defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of tire circuit court for Douglas county: Eeakk A. Eoss, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for a personal injury, causing, as claimed, tire deatli of plaintiff’s intestate. The complaint contained two causes of action, — one for damages to the deceased and one for damages to his surviving mother. The intestate, December 7, 1911, was an employee of defendant. He was required to operate the levers of a scraping machine so as to cause such machine to do the work of moving coal on the floor of a coal dock. His.post was on a platform above the surface of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 17, 1914:
MaRshalu, J.
Questions raised by counsel which are not referred to in what follows have been examined and passed as inconsequential because either not involving any error at all, or any of prejudicial character.
Minor matters which constitute the res gestee of a major *176subject are things so closely connected therewith as to he substantially involved therein and to explain or illustrate it. Andrews v. United States C. Co. 154 Wis. 82, 142 N. W. 487. It follows, as counsel for appellant contends, that there must be a material major circumstance in…
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