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· 7/17/1906

Kranich v. Knapp

Citations

  • 43 Wash. 85
  • 86 P. 207
  • 1906 Wash. LEXIS 657

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Negligence—Dangerous Machinery — Assumption op Risk. An employee assisting in feeding a laundry mangle, whose hand was caught between the rollers over the guard while smoothing wrinkles in a sheet, assumes the risk, where the dangers were open and apparent and she could not fail to see the danger, even though she had assisted in feeding only five or six times, had received no warning, and testified that she did not know of the danger or how the accident happened.</p>

Judges: Budkin

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