Korn v. Pfister & Vogel Leather Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. 0. Eschweilee, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: E. 0. Eschweilee, Circuit Judge. This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries. The negligence charged in the complaint is substantially that the defendant failed to furnish a reasonably safe place or suitable and safe appliances, and failed to warn plaintiff of the dangers incident to his employment; to keep the lever shifter properly and safely inclosed and protected; to maintain such shifter at a sufficient height from the floor to prevent persons and objects coming in contact witb it and thereby setting…
1Opinion of the CourtKerwiN, J.
At tbe time of tbe injury in question tbe plaintiff was at work on tbe fifth floor of defendant’s tannery. On tbis floor and extending north and south was a shaft upon wbicb were bung three drums used for preparing bides. Tbe drum at wbicb tbe plaintiff was at work was about eight feet in diameter and four feet wide and farthest south on tbe shaft, being some eight or ten feet from tbe elevator, wbicb was situate at tbe south end of a passageway extending north and south along tbe west side of tbe drums. Tbe drum in question was inclosed except a doorway on tbe side of it 22 x 24 inches,…
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