Case Name: Milwaukee Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v. O'Brien & Brauer Construction, Inc., Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1973-01-30
Citations: 57 Wis. 2d 751
Docket Number: No. 144
Parties: Milwaukee Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v. O’Brien & Brauer Construction, Inc., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports Second
Volume: 57
Pages: 751–752

Head Matter:
January 30, 1973.
Milwaukee Mutual Insurance Company, Appellant, v. O’Brien & Brauer Construction, Inc., Respondent.
No. 144.
Submitted January 5, 1973.
Decided January 30, 1973.
For the appellant the cause was submitted on the brief of Charles Saggio of Milwaukee.
For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Ames, Riordan, Crivello & Sullivan, attorneys, and Donald H. Carlson of counsel, all of Milwaukee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The trial court granted defendant's motion to dismiss on the merits at the close of plaintiff's case on liability.
The plaintiff challenges two rulings by the trial court. The first was the refusal to admit documents offered without a proper foundation. The second was the refusal to allow plaintiff's counsel to impeach his own witness without a showing of surprise at the witness' testimony. Both rulings were correct.
Plaintiff claims the case should have gone to the jury. The evidence shows that at the time work ceased for the day on December 10, 1965, all warning devices and barricades required by the highway commission for the construction project were in place and operating. The motion to dismiss was properly granted.
The judgment is affirmed.