Swanson v. Sound Construction & Engineering Co.

Citations

• 67 Wash. 128
• 120 P. 880
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1132

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Fellow Servants — Temporary Staging— Details oe Work. A-carpenter’s helper who fell from temporary staging which he was assisting in building, cannot recover of the master for negligence of the carpenters in nailing a support with only one nail near its upper edge and in using cross-grain material, where the plan of construction was a good- one and sufficient material was furnished apd the carpenters were competent and made their own selection of materials and used their own judgment as to the number of nails required; since the accident was due to the neglect of fellow servants in mere details of the work (Fullerton, J., dissenting).</p>