Steeples v. Panel & Folding Box Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Chehalis county, Irwin, J., entered November 6, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered for the defendant by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case, dismissing an action for personal injuries sustained in falling from an unguarded second story platform.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
Action for civil damages. The respondent, the Panel & Polding Box Company, was operating a mill or factory for the purpose of manufacturing, boxes and other wooden commodities. The factory was in the second story. On the north side of the said second story there was a platform eight feet wide. The produce of the factory was loaded on to cars on the south side of the mill, - the cars being on a level with the first' story of the factory building; and the manner of loading was to carry the boxes or other produce of the factory on to the platform mentioned above, and slide them down a certain…
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