Deaton v. Abrams
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Albertson, J., entered December %%, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a sawyer employed in a woodyard.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
Defendants were the owners of a wood-yard located on the shores of Lake Ujiion, where they were engaged in converting the mill wood coming from the Edge-water Lumber Company into stove lengths. In the yard at the time of the injury complained of there were two long ricks of wood, each from sixty to seventy-five feet long. The *2one being next to a barbed wire fence skirting the railroad right of way was, according to the evidence of plaintiff, eighteen feet high, and in the judgment of his other witnesses, sixteen to eighteen feet high. The other paralleled the first pile at a distance of about…
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