Ford v. Heffernan Engine Works

Citations

• 48 Wash. 315
• 93 P. 417
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 857

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Assumption of Risks — Obvious Dangers. A pit or hole three feet square and ten feet deep, in a shop near a drill press then being constructed, and which was uncovered except by a planlt three inches by twelve and four feet long, is such an obvious danger that notice must have been taken thereof by a helper, who fell into the hole while assisting to put in place a heavy wheel weighing fifty or sixty pounds, where it appears that the place was light, that he had just previously assisted in carrying and laying down a shaft within a few feet of the hole, that in carrying the wheel to the hole he had stepped on the plank over the same, and in some unexplained manner had lost his footing and fell into the hole.</p>