Relyea v. Tomahawk Pulp & Paper Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Lincoln county: Chas. M. Webb, Judge. An action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while engaged as back tender in the paper mill of the defendant, on June 28,1896. Plaintiff was substantially twenty years of age, had been employed in factories from the time he was fifteen, and in paper mills most of the time for three years prior to his injury, in and about work similar to that he was required to do for the…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Lincoln county: Chas. M. Webb, Judge. An action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff while engaged as back tender in the paper mill of the defendant, on June 28,1896. Plaintiff was substantially twenty years of age, had been employed in factories from the time he was fifteen, and in paper mills most of the time for three years prior to his injury, in and about work similar to that he was required to do for the defendant. He had been employed in the same capacity in defendant’s mill, and about the same machine, for two months and a…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
The plaintiff is a little vague as to the specific failure on defendant’s part which is claimed to constitute a breach of its duty to furnish a reasonably safe place for plaintiff to work. He seems to assert defect in original construction of the apparatus in using a board pivoted by a bolt at one end, and resting loosely at the other on a smooth iron plate, because the defendant should have foreseen that by continual use the pivot would become loose, the board would become uneven, and the iron surface, on which the loose end rested, would, by dripping of oil, become slippery, so that that…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Osborne v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
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