Geer v. Sound Transfer Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald;, J., entered June 20, 1914, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in unloading a truck.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
Action to recover damages which it is claimed were occasioned by one of the defendant’s servants negligently rolling upon the plaintiff’s foot a heavy spool of wire which the plaintiff was assisting the servant to unload from the defendant’s truck. The defendant, by answer, denied negligence, and affirmatively alleged assumption of risk and contributory negligence concurring with the negligence of fellow servants. These defenses were traversed by the reply.
There is little dispute as to the material facts. The plaintiff was in the employ of the Pacific States Electric Company as warehouseman,…
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