Conine v. Olympia Logging Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurston county, Linn, J., entered January 26, 1904, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, dismissing an action for personal injuries sustained by a logger by reason of the sudden starting of an engine and the tautening of a cable.
1Opinion of the Court
Hadley, J. —
Appellant brought this action to recover damages for injuries received while he was working in respondent’s logging camp. The complaint avers, that, in the prosecution of its business, the respondent used modern logging appliances in the way of machinery and cables, to drag the logs from the places where they were *346out in the woods to the places where they were loaded on the cars for transportation to the market; that a donkey engine was used for dragging the logs upon the ground, and that, by means of a cable, the engine was connected with the logs some distance from it; that a…
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