Engirbritson v. Tri-State Cedar Co.

Citations

• 91 Wash. 279
• 157 P. 677
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 1038

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servant — Methods of Work— Assumption of Risk — Obvious Dangers. An experienced logger struck by the top of a dead tree that fell when hit by a rolling log, assumes the risk of the method of work adopted in falling a tree horizontally along a hillside and cutting it into logs in that position; since the dangers were as open and apparent to him as to the master.</p> <p>Same — Injuries to Servant — Medical Attendance — Liability for Malpractice. Where an employer without profit to himself employed a physician to furnish medical attendance to the men, |1 per month being deducted from wages to pay hospital fees, he is liable for the malpractice of the physician only in case of failure to exercise reasonable care in the selection of a competent physician.</p>