Brekick v. Welch

Citations

• 62 Wash. 623
• 114 P. 435
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 756

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Assumption of Risks — Dangerous Methods. Where a laborer, instead of having himself let down an eighteen foot shaft by the windlass, let the bucket down and unwound the rope to the staple on the windlass and swung himself over the shaft intending to slide down the rope, whereupon the staple pulled out, he assumes the risk, as a matter of law, where he well knew the danger, of adopting that method of entering the shaft (Gose, J., dissenting).</p>