Wells v. Ferry-Baker Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Snohomish county, Black, J., entered March 24, 1909, upon granting a nonsuit at the close of plaintiff’s case, dismissing an action in tort, after a trial before the court and a jury.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
On October 21, 1907, the appellant, the plaintiff below, while engaged in the discharge of his duties as a day watchman at the defendant’s mill, fell from the conveyor onto a platform, a distance of about ten feet, and sustained serious injuries. The complaint, after alleging formal matters, the employment, fall, and the injuries sustained, avers, in substance, that the defendant exacted and withheld from the wages of each of its employees, including the plaintiff, the sum of one dollar per month, which it paid to a physician and surgeon of its selection for such professional services as he *659sh…
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