Bibby v. Wausau Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff September 15,1885, while in the employ of the defendant in its steam saw-mill as head sawyer, by reason of the defendant’s negligence.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marathon County. This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff September 15,1885, while in the employ of the defendant in its steam saw-mill as head sawyer, by reason of the defendant’s negligence. The particular negligence alleged is to the effect that the sawmill, pulleys, rollers, and other machinery appurtenant thereto were too small, light, weak, old, decayed, and out of repair; that the roller-frame was unevenly and improperly constructed; that there was no spreader-behind the saw; that the mill and…
1Opinion of the CourtCassoday, J.
At the time of the accident the mill was sawing at the rate of from 50,000 to 60,000 feet of lumber, board measure, in twelve hours. This was done by a circular saw sixty inches in diameter, making from 850 to 900 revolutions per minute. The saw was attached to the end of a horizontal iron or steel shaft or arbor, some eight or ten feet in length, by a nut pressing it between two collars, six inches in diameter, with two lug-pins passing through the saw to hold it firm. This shaft or arbor rested in iron or steel boxes, upon two bearings on the respective sides of a wooden frame,— one very…
2Cited by1 opinion
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