Gordon v. Ballard Lumber Co.

Citations

• 71 Wash. 430
• 128 P. 1053
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 768

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Methods oe Work — Contributory Negligence — Evidence'—Sueeiciency. An employee assisting in loading lumber by attacking skidding tongs to timbers, is guilty of contributory negligence, as a matter of law, precluding recovery for injury to bis band, drawn into a block when be took bold of tbe wrong cable to slacken it, where, if be bad looked be could bave seen that it was the wrong cable, and would not bave been injured but for bis own mistake.</p>