Johnson v. Coates Logging Co.

Citations

• 50 Wash. 679
• 97 P. 801
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 805

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injuries to Servant — Contributory Negligence — Operation of Machinery — Evidence — Sufficiency. One employed as a second loader in a logging camp, whose hand was injured while pulling slack and unwinding line from the spool of a donkey engine, is guilty of contributory negligence precluding any recovery, where it appears, that it was obvious to one of his experience that there was danger in getting his hand caught in pulling slack through the block if the line was held after it was reversed, and he frankly admitted that he was paying no attention, and there was ten feet of loose line at the time, giving him opportunity to let go, or detach his glove caught on the line, in case he had been paying attention.</p>