Eckert v. Sound Construction & Engineering Co.
Citations
- 73 Wash. 320
- 131 P. 1121
- 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1602
Syllabus
<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servants — Fellow Servants— Soappold. A carpenter, engaged in framing timbers in the same building and in sight of a scaffold constructed the day before, and the carpenters who built tbe scaffold, all engaged in tbe general work of framing tbe roof, under one foreman, are fellow servants; and tbe former cannot recover for injuries sustained in tbe fall of tbe scaffold through negligence in nailing a support with only one nail, where tbe plan of tbe scaffold and tbe material furnished was good, tbe 'men were competent and tbe master was not guilty of any negligence.</p>
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Judges: Crow, Ellis
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