West v. Shaw

Citations

• 61 Wash. 227
• 112 P. 243
• 1910 Wash. LEXIS 1319

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Dangerous Premises — Trespassers — License—Revocation — Instructions. In an action for injuries sustained by plaintiff in stepping into a post hole dug by a neighbor preparatory to putting up a fence, in which it was claimed by the defendants that they had revoked plaintiff’s license to use a pathway over the land, both by notice and by tying the gate, it is error to refuse to give an instruction based upon defendant’s evidence and theory of the case to the effect that there could be no liability to a trespasser, defined as one warned off the land.</p>