O'Dell v. Northern Coast Timber Co.

Citations

• 63 Wash. 546
• 115 P. 1085
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 1242

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Assumption op Risks — Duty to Warn— Obvious Dangers. An experienced logger, 21 years of age, is not entitled to recover for injuries sustained by reason of failure to warn him of the dangers to which he was exposed, and which were so obvious and apparent as to preclude a recovery, where it appears that he was directed to signal a railway train to stop until a cable across the track could be removed, that he stationed himself on a log and on the opposite side of and near the cable when the train was three or four hundred yards away approaching at 35 miles an hour, and remained there until the engine was only two lengths away, and then ran back and was struck by the cable, when he had ample time to place himself in a safe place, there being abundant safe places from which the signal could be given.</p> <p>Dunbar, C. J., dissents.</p>