Etel v. Grubb

Defendants are the owners of an orchard in Yakima county, and, during the fall of 1928, plaintiff was employed by them as a fruit picker. Early in October, plaintiff, then being engaged in picking apples from trees running from twelve to over twenty feet in height, required a ladder to enable him to reach the apples on the higher branches of the tree from which he was then picking. There being a group of four stepladders, the property of defendants, standing nearby, where they had been placed, presumably for use by the fruit pickers, plaintiff selected a ladder about ten feet in height and,…