Soderburg v. Wells

Citations

• 57 Wash. 281
• 106 P. 751
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 741

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Safe Place — Inspection—Duty of Servant — Instructions. Where a brick mason was injured by the fall of a projecting wall upon which he was set to work, th'e first course of the projection having been laid by other masons as a stretcher course instead of a header course, he cannot recover because of the employer’s duty to furnish him a safe place in which to work, and failure to give notice of the danger, if by the exercise of reasonable care he would have discovered the defect; and instructions sufficiently cover the point where the jury are told that he had a right to assume that the place for work was reasonably safe, and was not bound to anticipate danger or make an inspection, in the absence of knowledge of the defect or such notice as would lead him in the exercise of due care to such knowledge.</p>