Paaske v. Perfex Corp.

The only issue involved on the instant appeal is whether there was a violation of the safe-place statute. The record reveals the following facts. On November 16, 1959, appellant Justin Paaske was employed as a mason by the Hackett Construction Company, and was working on the premises of the respondent Perfex Corporation in the city of Milwaukee. Paaske was constructing a wall which was to eventually enclose an open area between two buildings belonging to Perfex. The wall upon which he was working joined the existing wall of the building at right angles. Several steel beams protruded from the…