Riverside Iron-works Co. v. Green

Citations

• 79 Kan. 588
• 100 P. 482
• 1909 Kan. LEXIS 246

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Master and Servant—Injury to Employee—Assumption of Bisk. Where a painter by trade, of mature age, accepts an employment which requires him and many other employees, in ■going to and from their work, to pass (at am elevation of twenty-five feet) over a gangplank twelve feet long, twelve inches wide and two inches thick, supported at one end by a steel frame and at the other by a concrete abutment to a bridge, and, without complaint, he continues in such employment ten days and passes over such plank several times each day, and has full opportunity to see that the plank is entirely unfastened at either end, held, he has as full knowledge of any danger from such crossing as has his employer, and, by continuing in the employment, he assumes the risk of danger therefrom.</p>