Radtke Bros. & Korsch Co. v. Rutzinski
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. Action to set aside an award of the Industrial Commission granting compensation for injuries. From judgment sustaining the award plaintiffs appeal. The applicant, a boy fourteen years of age at the time of the injury, had been employed for a week in appellant’s printing and book-binding establishment. He had a permit to work at that age.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. Action to set aside an award of the Industrial Commission granting compensation for injuries. From judgment sustaining the award plaintiffs appeal. The applicant, a boy fourteen years of age at the time of the injury, had been employed for a week in appellant’s printing and book-binding establishment. He had a permit to work at that age. The evidence established without dispute that his duties were to run errands and to help at other odd jobs such as helping girls fold sheets of paper and pounding…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, J.
One of the claims made by the respondents is that the boy was employed in violation of the child-labor *215law. A letter in the files shows that this matter was not overlooked by the Commission, although the subject is not discussed either in the decision of the Commission or that of the trial court. It is conceded that there was a permit regularly issued under the statute. It is hardly to be presumed that the officials granting such permit neglected their duty or that they regarded the establishment of appellant or the employment as dangerous to life or limb.
Although it is argued that the…
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