Landry v. Seattle Port Angeles & Western Railway Co.

Citations

• 100 Wash. 453
• 171 P. 231
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 753

Syllabus

<p>Courts—Power to Correct Errors—Judgment. A memorandum decision of the judge upon motions submitted, directing that an order be prepared, does not prevent the entry of a contrary formal judgment, arrived at on more full consideration.</p> <p>Master and Servant—Assumption op Risks—Question por Jury. The assumption of the risk of a telephone pole’s falling is a question for the jury, where there was nothing to indicate that it was not set a sufficient depth in the ground, and plaintiff, an experienced lineman, tested it by putting his weight against it before climbing it, without first digging around it.</p>