Mayhew v. Wisconsin Zinc Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Grant county: Geobge ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. An action for personal injuries sustained by tbe plaintiff while working for tbe defendant as engineer in its mining plant. Tbe defendant, tbe Wisconsin Zinc Company, operated, among other plants, one at Platteville known as tbe Empire plant. It bad not elected to pay compensation under tbe Workmen’s Compensation Act.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Grant county: Geobge ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. An action for personal injuries sustained by tbe plaintiff while working for tbe defendant as engineer in its mining plant. Tbe defendant, tbe Wisconsin Zinc Company, operated, among other plants, one at Platteville known as tbe Empire plant. It bad not elected to pay compensation under tbe Workmen’s Compensation Act. Tbe power for the plant was supplied by electrical current from without tbe plant to a 100 borse power motor situated in tbe east end of tbe engine room and about twenty-seven inches…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed June 17, 1914:
SiebeCKER, J.
The defendant contends upon the facts shown that the plaintiff has not established a right to recover damages to compensate him for injuries he suffered, upon the grounds, first, that the evidence adduced wholly fails to show that defendant was guilty of any negligence which proximately caused the accident, and secondly, that if such negligence on its part be found, it appears as a matter of law that the plaintiff was guilty of negligence which proximately contributed to produce the injuries of which he complains.
The defendant’s…
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