Christianson v. Pacific Bridge Co.

Citations

• 27 Wash. 582
• 68 P. 191
• 1902 Wash. LEXIS 427

Syllabus

<p>MASTER AND SERVANT-ACTION BY SERVANT EOR INJURIES — CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE-QUESTION EOR JURY.</p> <p>Where one unfamiliar with trench digging and the nature of the ground was ordered into a trench by the foreman in charge of the work and directed to excavate the softer earth in the side of the trench beneath an upper layer of cement gravel, which he did to a lateral depth of a foot and a half, and was injured by the caving in of the wall of the trench upon which he was working, the questions of his assumption of risk and of his contributory negligence are for the jury, in an' action brought by him to recover for his injuries.</p>