Walker v. Scott

Citations

• 67 Kan. 814
• 64 P. 615
• 1903 Kan. LEXIS 338

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COUBT.</p> <p>Personal Injuries — Assumption of Risk. A servant assumes tlie ordinary risks of his employment in cases where its dangers are open to common observation and are as fully known to him as to his employer, and where he is as capable of knowing and measuring the dangers of such employment and is not induced to continue in the work by any promise of betterment or indemnity from his employer. In such a case the servant cannot recover from his employer damages for any injury that may come to him in the course of his employment.</p>