Eidner v. Three Lakes Lumber Co.

Citations

• 45 Wash. 323
• 88 P. 326
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 467

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Negligence—Safe Place — Control of Machinery. The master is liable to a servant, a setter on a saw-carriage, who is injured through the negligence of the head sawyer in leaving his post without locking a safety device to prevent the carriage from suddenly starting without warning, where the head sawyer had complete control of the machinery and the saw crew; since the master owed the duty to keep the place safe or warn the servant, and the head sawyer was a vice principal with respect to such duties.</p>