Campbell v. ITE Imperial Corp.

The principal issue in this case is whether the negligence of appellant's employer in failing to warn of or protect appellant from respondent's allegedly unsafe product constitutes an intervening act legally sufficient to operate as a superseding cause? Under the facts of this case, we hold that the employer's negligence does not constitute a superseding cause, and that the trial court *809erred in giving a jury instruction on superseding cause.

I

The facts of this case are largely undisputed. On August 29, 1980, appellant Steve Campbell was working as a wire-man with a crew for Snohomish County…