Stock v. Kern
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appbax from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: JohN K. Paeish, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for an injury to plaintiff’s right hand, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. At the time the injury was received the plaintiff was twenty-eight years old. He had lived on a farm until he was twenty-one, and thereafter had worked one winter in the woods, and subsequently had fired in the Glidden Veneer Factory.
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Appbax from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: JohN K. Paeish, Circuit Judge. This is an action to recover damages for an injury to plaintiff’s right hand, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. At the time the injury was received the plaintiff was twenty-eight years old. He had lived on a farm until he was twenty-one, and thereafter had worked one winter in the woods, and subsequently had fired in the Glidden Veneer Factory. Eor five years he had fired in the factory, and when not so busied he worked about the town or in the mill as a laborer. He bad…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecKeb, J.
Tbe jury found that tbe splitter maebine, as equipped and operated, was not a reasonably safe one for tbe purpose for wbicb it was used; that the speed of the saw, *222as operated at the time the plaintiff was injured, was so slow as to render it dangerous to the plaintiff, wlm was operating it; that the plaintiff was ignorant of such dangers; and that the defendant failed to instruct or warn him as to the dangers incident to the operation of the machine. The appellant contends that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant, upon the grounds that there was no evidence…
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