Hurst v. Washington Canners Co-Op

This action was commenced to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff wife when she slipped on the stairway in the defendant’s cannery. The complaint alleged that the' defendant’s negligence was the proximate cause of her slipping. Defendant denied the allegations of negligence and affirmatively alleged contributory negligence and assumption of risk.

Mrs. Hurst was employed by defendant on September 10, 1954, as a canning line operator. She worked an eight hour day from seven o’clock in the morning until eleven, and then from eleven-thirty until three-thirty in the…