Martin v. Hill
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Main, J,, entered March 4, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, for the sum of $4,495.95, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a carpenter engaged in the construction of defendant’s house.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Plaintiff, who is a carpenter, was engaged in talcing down forms on a house built of concrete. The house was owned by the defendant. A gin pole had been set up on the roof of the building; and having performed its office, the carpenter’s foreman, one Thompson, said in the presence and hearing of several workmen engaged on or about the roof, “Come, boys, and give us a hand to take down that gin pole.” Plaintiff left his task and with others prepared to assist in lowering the pole, which was some thirty-five feet high and made up of sections of rolled iron pipe, six inches in diameter at the…
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