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· 2/8/1912

Fisher v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.

Citations

  • 67 Wash. 176
  • 121 P. 44
  • 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1142

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — -Assumption of Risks — Obvious Dangers— Evidence — Sufficiency. The risk of being struck by the butt of a falling tree is obvious and necessarily incident to the work of slashing trees and brush and is assumed by a man, thirty-four years of' age, of ordinary understanding and experience, although he had had no previous experience in that work and was not warned of the danger.</p>

Judges: Mount

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