Hord v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Citations

• 68 Wash. 119
• 122 P. 598
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1258

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servant — Telephone Poles— Duty op Inspection — Assumption op Risks. Tbe climbing of telephone poles by an experienced climber using spikes is not so inherently dangerous as to require separate superintendence or inspection, and does not relieve the servant of the assumption of the risks of a fall by reason of a defective spot in a pole otherwise sound and normal, where the only usual and customary inspection of poles was such as would be made by the climber himself in ascending the pole; and the servant assumes the risk as a matter of law.</p> <p>Same — Safe Place to Work — Res Ipsa Loquitur. In such a case, the doctrines of safe place to work and res ipsa loquitur have no application.</p>