Forsman v. Seattle Electric Co.

Citations

• 58 Wash. 666
• 109 P. 121
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 988

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant—Assumption op Risks—Reliance on Directions—Unloading Heavy Objects—-Question por Jury. A common laborer, assisting in unloauing from a wagon a barrel of tar weighing five or six hundred pounds, without previous experience, or knowledge of the weight, may rely on the superior knowledge of the master and act as directed, and does not, as a matter of law, assume the risk of an injury from an unsafe method of unloading, whereby his hand was crushed because he was unable to bear the weight which bore upon him while acting as directed in lowering the barrel to the ground.</p>