Fisher v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gilliam, J., entered August 9, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by an employee in falling a tree.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment for personal injuries. The defendants have appealed.
It appears that, during the summer of 1909, the defendants were engaged in clearing the brush and timber from a right of way for an electric railway. The defendant A. Spotts was the foreman of the engineering company in charge of the work. The plaintiff had been in the employ of the defendants for several months. In the month of September of that year, he was set to work with a number of other men at slashing and burning brush and small trees upon the right of way. He had previously had no experience in…
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- Anderson v. Columbia Improvement Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1905
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- Engirbritson v. Tri-State Cedar Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1916