Plaisted v. Tangen

The plaintiff (appellant) appeals from a summary judgment entered by the trial court in favor of the defendants (respondents).

The plaintiff, John L. Plaisted, alleges in his complaint that he sustained injuries, by reason of the defendants’ negligence, when he slipped on a loose sheet of plywood while attempting to enter a building being constructed by the defendants, Herbert Tangen and Bertil Lundh, copartners.

The plaintiff is a painter and has long worked at his trade in the Seattle area. He was employed at various times by Tangen to do the painting on residence construction jobs contracted…