Hage v. Luedinghaus

Citations

• 60 Wash. 680
• 111 P. 1041
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1121

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Negligence of Vice Principal — Ordering Servant Into Dangerous Place — Evidence—Sufficiency. A signalman is not directly ordered by a vice principal to go into the bight of a logging cable to give a second signal, where he was simply signaled to start the engine, and could choose his place for giving: the signal.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Incompetent Fellow Servants — Evidence —Sufficiency. A “fireman” is not necessarily incompetent to run. a donkey engine, where no particular skill was required and it is usual for either the engineer or the fireman to run it; and in the absence of evidence of his incompetency, it is not negligence to. permit him to run the engine.</p> <p>Same. A single act of negligence is not sufficient to show that a fellow servant was incompetent.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Fellow Servants. A man running a donkey engine in a logging camp, and his signalman, are fellow servants.</p> <p>Master and Servant — Negligence of Master — Safe Appliances- and Methods. Where it is not necessary for a signalman in a logging camp to go into a dangerous place to give a signal by hand, the master cannot be charged with negligence in failing to supply a whistle wire to give the signals.</p>