Conine v. Olympia Logging Co.

Citations

• 36 Wash. 345
• 78 P. 932
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 560

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Negligence—Failure to Provide Safe Method op Doing Business — Starting Logging Engine Without Warning — Complaint—Sufficiency. In an action for personal injuries sustained through the negligent starting of a logging engine without giving warning, the complaint is sufficient, as against a general demurrer, where it is alleged that the defendant’s donkey engine used for dragging logs with a cable was beyond the view of the men attaching the logs, that the defendant negligently failed to supply any appliance by which the engineer could signal to the men that he was about to start the engine, that it was customary and the defendant’s adopted method of doing business not to start the engine until the men had signalled to the engineer, and that the engineer negligently started the engine without waiting for such signal, or giving the plaintiff any notice, whereby the plaintiff, who was attaching the logs in his regular line of duty, was injured.</p>