Larsen v. Covington Lumber Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered March 4, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action impersonal injuries sustained by an employee in a sawmill.
1Opinion of the CourtCrow, J.
Action by Elias Larsen against the Covington Lumber Company, a corporation, to recover damages for per-* sonal injuries. From a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor, the defendant appeals.
We will only consider appellant’s contention that the trial court erred in denying its challenge to the evidence, and its motion for a directed verdict. Appellant owns and operates a sawmill in King county, in which the respondent, at the time of his injury, was employed as marker or tallyman. Numerous acts of negligence were pleaded, but they were all abandoned on the trial except the alleged…
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