Guley v. Northwestern Coal & Transportation Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

The complaint in this case alleged that, on the 8th day of March, 1S88, plaintiff, then a boy of thirteen years, was in the employ of defendant, at its coal mines in Thurston county, as a screener, and that, while so employed, he was ordered by defendant’s superintendent to leave his work and, with the assistance of another boy of about plaintiff’s age, to take a car loaded with coal down a steep grade to the scale at said mines. Paragraph 6 then proceeds as follows:

“That the plaintiff was inexperienced in handling the brakes of cars, and…