Burns v. Leudinghaus

Citations

• 65 Wash. 448
• 118 P. 305
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 947

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servant — Assumption oe Risks —Guarding Machinery — Appliances in General Use. A bead sawyer in a mill assumes the risks, and cannot recover for injuries received by coming in contact with the rock saw, under which he walked when it had been lowered, where the master had made an honest effort to guard the saw, providing such a guard as was in general use within the factory act, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6587, requiring the adoption of reasonable safeguards for all saws which it is practicable to guard, and the sawyer had used the same in that condition without complaint, even if it were practicable to have provided some other kind of guard that might have prevented the accident (Dunbar, C. J., and Fullerton, J., dissenting).</p>