Behling v. Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. Tubkeb, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for a personal injury which happened to plaintiff August 24, 1911, while he was performing his duties as an employee of defendant, which was carrying on a manufacturing business in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. Tubkeb, Circuit Judge. Action to recover compensation for a personal injury which happened to plaintiff August 24, 1911, while he was performing his duties as an employee of defendant, which was carrying on a manufacturing business in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In defendant’s mill yard there was a heavy traveling crane, the entire appliance conditioned as follows: There were trestles about sixteen feet high extending east and west in a mill yard for a distance of about 280 feet. A crane car ran on rails at the top…
1Opinion of the CourtMaRSiiall, J.
Tbe first complaint made on behalf of appellant is that tbe finding as to there not having been an arrangement between tbe crane man and respondent for tbe latter to care for bis own safety, should have been changed to tbe affirmative. Two witnesses, tbe crane man and bis assistant who attended to tbe book, called the chain man, testified, positively, in the affirmative; tbe former to tbe effect that in a conversation with respondent it was definitely arranged that be would attend to bis own safety, and tbe latter that be was near by and beard sucb conversation. That was corroborated by…
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