White v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad

Citations

• 54 Wash. 670
• 103 P. 1119
• 1909 Wash. LEXIS 1054

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Sake Place — Fall or Rock in Quarry— Evidence — Sueeiciency. The owner of a quarry is not guilty of negligence, rendering it liable to an employee who was injured by the fall of rock from the side of a cliff, evidently jarred loose by a blast at another place, where it appears that no work had been done at that point for a month, that it had been reasonably inspected and there was no appearance of danger from a fall of rock, and such danger could only have been discovered by a very close inspection of the wall (Dunbar, J., dissenting).</p>