Haggard v. City of Seattle
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Tallman, J., entered January 8, 1910, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in an electric lighting plant.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
The respondent alleged in his complaint that, while working as a servant for appellant at and in the substation of its lighting plant in the city of Seattle, he being at the time of the age of eighteen years, was .ordered by one McKean, whom he alleges was the agent of defendant with authority to order and direct the plaintiff in his work, to wipe up some oil under the oil switches (definitely described in the complaint) and that it was necessary for him, in carrying out said orders, to go through a certain narrow passageway in close proximity to such switches; that a person passing through…
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