Mueller v. Dennis

Citations

• 83 Wash. 123
• 145 P. 218
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 680

Syllabus

<p>Masteb and Servant — Injuries to Servants — Inexperienced Employee — Warning—Defective Appliances — Evidence — Sufficiency. The master is liable to an inexperienced elevator boy, injured by being caught through a peculiar action of the elevator in starting or stopping it, where it appears that he had no previous experience, and had used the elevator only two or three times before the accident, that he was only instructed that a certain pull on the cable would start it and an opposite pull would stop it; but there was evidence tending to show that its operation was peculiar, because it would start with a jerk, and frequently required several pulls in order to stop it, or would start of its own accord after being apparently stopped, of which facts he was not warned.</p>