Newcomb v. Puget Sound & Queen City Boiler Works

Citations

• 54 Wash. 419
• 103 P. 456
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1010

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injury to Servant — Unguarded Machinery —Starting Machinery Without Warning. The evidence is sufficient ■to sustain a verdict for injuries to a boiler maker’s helper from a fall upon an unguarded shaft, where it appears that his superior ordered him into a place of danger near the shaft to assist in making repairs to a belt, promising that the machinery would not be started, and that the starting of the machinery without warning, while he without fault was placing the belt on the pulley, caused him to lose his balance and fall, and there were no guards or supports by which he could save himself.</p> <p>Appeal — Review—Verdict. A verdict will not be disturbed on. ■appeal on account of conflict in the evidence.</p>