Terry v. Merrill & Ring Logging Co.

Citations

• 65 Wash. 225
• 118 P. 27
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 909

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Assumption op Risks — Promise to Remedy Conditions — Evidence—Sufficiency. A rigging slinger in a yarding crew of a logging camp assumes tbe risks of dangers from an unusual amount of brush about the logs and the failure of the swampers to properly complete their work and clear the brush away so as to permit the riggers to do their work with dispatch and safety, and he is not absolved by promises of the foreman to secure more men, if he could get them, made upon complaint as to the conditions, where it appears that the work of logging with the aid of a donkey engine is not customary until after the swamping is done, that swampers must keep ahead of the riggers, and that it would have been impracticable and unsafe to send in swampers to remedy conditions while the riggers were at their work and logging operations were going on, and there was no promise made to suspend the logging in which the plaintiff was engaged when injured.</p>