Innes v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. Johnson, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff’s intestate, Alexander Innes, was an employee of defendant, to assist in attending some steam boilers used to generate steam for power to operate its water pumps. The boilers were put in place and installed for defendant by the E. P. Allis Company, a few months before the injury hereafter mentioned.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: D. H. Johnson, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff’s intestate, Alexander Innes, was an employee of defendant, to assist in attending some steam boilers used to generate steam for power to operate its water pumps. The boilers were put in place and installed for defendant by the E. P. Allis Company, a few months before the injury hereafter mentioned. One of the necessary attachments to such boilers was a blow-off pipe used for emptying the boilers when desired. .At a point in such blow-off pipe where it was subjected to the full pressure…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRshall, J.
The alleged negligence consisted in the use -of a cast-iron bend attached to a wronght-iron pipe in the manner described in the complaint. All the evidence to establish want of ordinary care on defendant’s part was directed to the question of whether such a bend was generally considered reasonably safe and was in general use for the purpose to which it was put in defendant’s steam plant, at and before the time of the injury. The jury determined that question in defendant’s favor, by finding that such pipe and bend were constructed of the materials and in the manner •ordinarily and usually…
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