Carlson v. Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.

Citations

• 50 Wash. 490
• 97 P. 501
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 769

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Negligence—Safe Place — Defective Machinery — Use of Other Safe Agencies. The working place provided for an edgerman in a mill is not rendered unsafe by the mere’ fact that live skids used to convey the lumber from the live rolls to the edger had become worn and too low, so that obstructions were liable to occur on the live rolls near the plaintiff’s working place, where the live skids were merely a labor saving device for the conveyance of the lumber and the master had stationed employees whose duty it was to look after obstructions when the skids failed to perform their functions; since the live skids, even if too low, were not inherently dangerous, and their use not negligence so long as other safe agencies were employed; the proximate cause of the injury being the negligence of a fellow servant and not the defective condition of the skids.</p>