Anderson v. Miller Scrap Iron Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. This action was commenced to recover damages resulting from the wrongful death of plaintiff’s decedent. He was an employee of the Miller Scrap Iron Company. The Miller Scrap Iron Company and the decedent were -both residents of Wisconsin. The contract of employment was a Wisconsin contract, and both were under the workmen’s compensation act.
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Appeal from a judgment of the municipal court of Brown county: N. J. Monahan, Judge. This action was commenced to recover damages resulting from the wrongful death of plaintiff’s decedent. He was an employee of the Miller Scrap Iron Company. The Miller Scrap Iron Company and the decedent were -both residents of Wisconsin. The contract of employment was a Wisconsin contract, and both were under the workmen’s compensation act. Death occurred by reason of the overturning of an automobile driven by Herman Miller, an officer of the Miller Scrap Iron Company, in the state of Michigan, while on the…
1DissentEschweiler, J.
One Joseph Boncher, a resident of Wisconsin, was employed by the defendant company, a Wisconsin corporation. They were both subject to the workmen’s compensation act. On June 30, 1917, in the course of his employment, but while in the state of Michigan, Boncher was fatally injured through the overturning of an automobile driven by defendant Herman Miller, secretary and agent of the defendant company. On the death of Boncher shortly after the accident the plaintiff was appointed his administratrix in Brown county, Wisconsin. She brought this action in the municipal court of Brown county to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Anderson v. Miller Scrap Iron Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1919
- Crane v. Leonard, Crossette & RileyMichigan Supreme Court · 1921
- Bain v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1904
- Jeffery v. OsborneWisconsin Supreme Court · 1911
- John v. PierceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1922
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