Allison v. Stivers

Citations

• 81 Kan. 713
• 106 P. 996
• 1910 Kan. LEXIS 419

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Injury to Employee — Duty of the Master —Assumption of Risk — Contributory Negligence. The principles that a master must furnish his employee reasonably safe instrumentalities with which to work, that the employee may assume the duty has been discharged, and that opportunity to observe does not of necessity charge the employee with knowledge of defects and danger, applied in a case in which a master required a carpenter to discard a ladder of his own choice and to use a defective scaffold built by brick masons who had previously been engaged in work on the same building.</p>