Cavelin v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.

Citations

• 61 Wash. 375
• 112 P. 349
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1350

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Fellow Servants — Incoaipetency—Evidence — Sufficiency. Incompetency in a common mason or bricklayer is not shown by evidence that he was nervous, and in a hurry about his 'work, and had on one or two occasions broken or pulled out the line marking the outer edge of the wall.</p> <p>Master and Servants — Fellow Servants. Masons engaged in laying brick are fellow servants when stretching a- line to mark the outer edge of the wall.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Negligence—Safe Appliances. A corporation, engaged in the construction of a building, cannot be assumed to be negligent in furnishing an insufficient nail to hold the bricklayer’s line, where there was no testimony that it had furnished any nail, and one of the witnesses testified that it was customary for the masons to select the nails.</p>