Cunningham v. Adna Mill Co.

Citations

• 71 Wash. 111
• 127 P. 850
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 701

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Fellow Servants — Different Employment. Fallers in a lumber camp working near the haul back line falling trees, out of view of tbe logging crew bauling out the logs, are not fellow servants of a rigging slinger engaged with, the hauling crew, since the character of the employment is different.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Safe Place — Negligence—Failure to Signal. Where a hauling crew in a logging camp was out of the view of the tree fallers working in another place near the line, it is the nondelegable duty of the master to see that a warning is given before a tree is allowed to fall across the line in such a way that it is liable to injure members of the hauling crew.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Contributory Negligence — Question eor Jury. It is for the jury to determine whether a rigging slinger was guilty of contributory negligence in standing in the bight of the cable while it was idle and the donkey engine was not applying power.</p>