Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Starr
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Clinton W. Howard, Judge. Action at law by Drank Starr against the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
The defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, while engaged in cleating a cable through which were carried telephone wires to the side wall of a building in Seattle, Wash., fell from near the top of a ladder to the pavement below, a distance of from 20 to 25' feet, and was severely injured. Starr was in the employ of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company at the time, to perform the service in which he was then engaged. The immediate cause of the accident was a defective round in the ladder, being the second from the top, which gave way. The round consisted of…
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