Wikstrom v. Preston Mill Co.

Citations

• 48 Wash. 164
• 93 P. 213
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 822

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Negligence—Youthful Employee — Duty to Instruct or Warn — Obvious Dangers — Evidence—Sufficiency. In an action by a young and inexperienced employee, set to work upon a cut-off saw in a shingle mill, without instructions or warning, a verdict for the plaintiff will not be disturbed on appeal on the theory that the dangers were obvious, where it appears that some instruction is requisite to qualify one to operate a cut-off saw, and that there are dangers from involuntary contact that instructions and experience would warn against.</p> <p>Same — Trial—Instructions. An instruction upon the duty • of a master need not also cover contributory negligence and assumption of risks where those subjects were fully covered in other instruc tions.</p>