Kliegel v. Weisel & Vilter Manufacturing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The defendant is a corporation created and organized under the laws of Wisconsin, doing businessin Milwaukee, and engaged in the manufacture of Corliss engines, machinery for brewers and bottlers, and ice-making and refrigerating machinery.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The defendant is a corporation created and organized under the laws of Wisconsin, doing businessin Milwaukee, and engaged in the manufacture of Corliss engines, machinery for brewers and bottlers, and ice-making and refrigerating machinery. The complaint alleges, in effect, that September 29, 1890, the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant in said business; that in the course of such employment he was instructed and commanded by the defendant’s foreman to assist in taking down and apart a certain machine, known as a “ condenser,” the…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
The condenser in question consisted of ten sections. Each section consisted of coiled two-inch pipe, and was about twenty feet long, running north and south, about five and one-half feet high, and about six inches wide at the base. These several sections stood some eighteen or twenty inches apart, and parallel with each other, upon the floor, or on blocks upon the floor. In putting up such sections, they commenced first with the one at the west end, and then the one next to that, and so on towards the east, *150until the ten were erected.. After all the ten sections were thus stationed, a header,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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