Wahler v. San Juan Fishing & Packing Co.

Citations

• 75 Wash. 556
• 135 P. 27
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1749

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injuries to Seaman — Navigation—Change in Course — Warning—Negligence—Evidence—Sufficiency. It is not actionable negligence for the master of a vessel, during a heavy sea, to fail to give notice or warning to an experienced seaman of a change in the course of the ship, whereby the ship was struck broadside by heavy waves, causing a dory which the seaman was engaged in lashing to fall upon him, where there was no evidence of any duty, rule or custom to give warning of changes in course.</p>