Jahn v. Champagne Lumber Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Wisconsin
In Equity. Hearing on bill and answer. This is a bill in equity, in the nature of a creditors’ bill, filed by Herman F. Jahn as assignee of John Nyback, against -the Champagne Lumber Company, a Wisconsin corporation, Alexander Stewart, and Walter Alexander, the principal stockholders of said corporation, and the only stockholders thereof resident within the state of Wisconsin.
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In Equity. Hearing on bill and answer. This is a bill in equity, in the nature of a creditors’ bill, filed by Herman F. Jahn as assignee of John Nyback, against -the Champagne Lumber Company, a Wisconsin corporation, Alexander Stewart, and Walter Alexander, the principal stockholders of said corporation, and the only stockholders thereof resident within the state of Wisconsin. The bill sets out, in substance, that the defendant corporation was on the 12th day of July, 1892, operating a certain sawmill located at the city of Merrill, in the state of Wisconsin, and engaged in the manufacture of…
1Opinion of the CourtQuarles, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It appears that on the 12th day of July," 1892, one John Nyback, then about 18 years of age, while working for the defendant corporation-in its lumber mill, received serious bodily injuries resulting from the neglect of said defendant to furnish him a safe place in which to work. This case has a singular history. There have been four jury trials in this court, with varying results. Three times the case has been passed upon by the Circuit Court of Appeals. Some small part of the history of this lawsuit may be read in-the following reports: Nyback v.…
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