Arneson v. Grant Smith & Co.

— Respondent was injured while working for .appellant, an independent contractor of two interstate commerce common carriers, in maintenance work on their lines. His remedy was, therefore, an action for damages against the contractor, rather than under the industrial insurance law. Luby v. Industrial Insurance Commission, 112 Wash. 153, 191 Pac. 855.

The negligence on which respondent relies to recover is that appellant furnished him with an unsafe and defective wrench. At the time of the accident, respondent was on a scaffold attempting to loosen a two and one-half inch pipe with what is known…