Johnson v. Caughren
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Klickitat county, McCredie, J., entered October 5, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee through the premature explosion of a blast.
1Opinion of the CourtFullerton, J.
The respondent brought this action to recover for personal injuries received while in the employ of the appellants, who were contractors doing construction work for the Portland & Seattle Railway Company on the north bank of the Columbia river. At the time of the injury the respondent was acting as assistant to one Ferguson, another employee of the appellants known as the powder man, the duties of the powder man being, among others, to superintend the drilling of holes for blasting, and to charge and explode the blasts. The immediate cause of the respondent’s injury was the premature…
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