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· 9/3/1910

Deaton v. Abrams

Citations

  • 60 Wash. 1
  • 110 P. 615
  • 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1002

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Assumption of Risks — Obvious Dangers. An experienced man, capable of and running a woodyard in the absence of the owner, assumes the risks of injury from setting up and operating a saw near a pile of four foot slabs eighteen feet high, which was so dangerously high that any man ought to know that it was likely to fall at any time, according to the testimony of the plaintiff and his witnesses (Fullerton, J., dissenting).</p>

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Judges: Chadwick, Fullerton

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