PRICHARD v. McDOWELL CRANES

No. 1187-1.

7 Wn. App. 711 (1972)

502 P.2d 483

JAMES C. PRICHARD et al., Appellants, v. McDOWELL CRANES et al., Respondents.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One — Panel 2.

October 30, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wolfstone, Panchot & Bloch and J. Porter Kelley, for appellants.

Elvidge, Veblen, Tewell, Bergmann & Taylor and William A. Taylor for respondents.


JAMES, J.

Plaintiff James C. Prichard seeks damages for the loss of the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, severed while he was engaged in cleaning and washing the valve box of the pumping mechanism of defendant McDowell Crane's concrete pumping truck.

Prichard claims that the sole proximate cause of his injury was the negligence of defendant James Blakslee in activating the pumping mechanism when he knew, or in the exercise of ordinary care should have...

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