Klochinski v. Shores Lumber Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: Jomsr K. Paeish, Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover damages sustained by the-plaintiff by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant while in its employ as a laborer in its steam sawmill..
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Ashland county: Jomsr K. Paeish, Circuit Judge. This was an action to recover damages sustained by the-plaintiff by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant while in its employ as a laborer in its steam sawmill.. The mill is a double mill, and the logs are brought into it over live rollers by a chain with brads which pierce the logs and haul them up on a log deck, on each side of which the carriages run upon which the logs are placed and carried forward to the saw. The carriage and saw on each side, forming a double mill, are supplied…
1Opinion of the CourtPinitet, J.
1. The special verdict is so defective that it ■does not warrant or support the judgment. The special ■question above quoted is certainly unique, but, with its answer, is wholly inadequate to show that actionable negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury. After a manifestly strenuous effort at certainty of statement and clearness of definition, it still fails to comply with the well-settled rule requiring questions to be submitted to be single, direct, and plain questions. Carroll v. Bohan, 43 Wis. 218, 221. A verdict must be cer*424tain, at least to a common…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Carroll v. BohanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
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- Hartford v. Northern Pacific RailroadWisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
- Kliegel v. Weisel & Vilter Manufacturing Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1893
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