Hicks v. Jenkins
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered July 31, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for injuries sustained by a boiler maker’s helper assisting in hoisting a stack.
1Opinion of the Court
Ellis, J.-
Action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendants. In October, 1907, and for some time prior thereto, the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendants in their boiler works in the city of Seattle. The defendants, through their general foreman, one Bean, on the day before the accident, sent the plaintiff and two other men to put up on the top of a building, some six or seven stories high, known as the Perry Hotel, in the city of Seattle, a ventilating stack. The stack was made of heavy sheet iron, and in sections which…
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