Danuser v. M. Seller & Co.

Citations

• 24 Wash. 565
• 64 P. 783
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 570

Syllabus

<p>MASTER AND SERVANT-SAFE PLACE TO WORK-ASSUMPTION OF RISKS.</p> <p>Where it was the custom in a store building having an elevator running from the basement to the second floor for any of the employees, without the ringing of a bell, to move same at his own convenience by pulling a rope, an employee whose business it was to make use of such elevator must be held as having assumed the risk of his employment, and where, while engaged on one floor in loading the elevator, he backed into the open shaft and fell to the basement by reason of the elevator having been moved without warning, by another employee, he cannot recover for his injuries.</p>