Lange v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad

Citations

• 107 Wash. 109
• 180 P. 924
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 733

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (92, 170)—Assumption of Risks—Question for Jury—Signals. The assumption of risks by one employed in loading timbers on cars, injured through a sudden movement of the train without warning, is a question for the jury, where there was evidence of two witnesses who had worked only that day that it was customary to give signals by blasts of the whistle when the train was about to be moved.</p> <p>Same (76, 77)—Fellow Servants—Signals. The giving of signals of the movement of a train is not, as a matter of law, a mere detail of the work that can be delegated to a fellow servant, where thére was evidence that it was necessary for the protection of a crew loading timbers on the train as it was moved from pile to pile.</p>