Chybowski v. Bucyrus Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: ObreN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: ObreN T. Williams, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for personal injuries. Plaintiff complained that while in the employ of defendant the latter failed' to furnish him-a reasonably safe place in which to do his work, in that his working place was in close proximity to a steam-hammer so defective that it was liable to deliver two blows-when only one was intended and without any manipulation-of the controlling levers for the second strike and thereby cause the drift pin, used on the occasion in question, if moved' out of its…
1Opinion of the Court
Maeshali,, J.
In Faber v. C. Reiss C. Co. 124 Wis. 554, 102 N. W. 1049, it was beld that a juror may properly be interrogated upon the voir dire as to whether he is in the employ of or in any way concerned with any insurance company which is pecuniarily interested in the litigation, the examination being conducted in the presence of jurors already in the box and those not yet drawn, if thought best, and in such reasonable manner as not to place improper matters before them or suggest impropriety in the company’s connection with the case. In other words, such examination is proper so long as…
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