Eastern Railway Co. v. Tuteur
Wisconsin Supreme Court
'Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vistje, Circuit Judge. Tbe plaintiff is a railroad corporation operating a railroad line from St. Paul, Minnesota, to tbe city of Superior, and owning and operating docks and warehouses in the city of Superior for the discharge and storage of freight, as well as the transfer of through freight from its cars to lake carriers, and vice versa,. On April 20, 1899, it entered into a written contract with the…
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'Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Douglas county: A. J. Vistje, Circuit Judge. Tbe plaintiff is a railroad corporation operating a railroad line from St. Paul, Minnesota, to tbe city of Superior, and owning and operating docks and warehouses in the city of Superior for the discharge and storage of freight, as well as the transfer of through freight from its cars to lake carriers, and vice versa,. On April 20, 1899, it entered into a written contract with the defendant Promberger, by which Prom-berger agreed to take charge of and operate its docks and warehouses at Superior and…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 9, 1906:
WiNsnow, J.
While the contention was made by the appellants that the freight-handling contract in question was merely simulated, or, if not simulated, that its legal effect was to make Promberger merely an employee of the plaintiff, and not an independent contractor, we regard these contentions as being so manifestly untenable that we are not required to discuss them at length, and will simply content ourselves with stating that they are overruled.
The leading questions in the case are whether the contract created the required mutuality of…
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