Court Opinion

ID: 9629606
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:46:06.745486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:21.568478
License: Public Domain

Andersen, A.C.J.
(concurring in the result) — Subsequent to the trial court granting a challenge to the sufficiency of the plaintiff's evidence in this case, the State Supreme Court handed down its decision in Kelley v. Howard S. Wright Constr. Co., 90 Wn.2d 323, 582 P.2d 500 (1978). Under the principles enunciated in Kelley, a jury issue is presented as to whether Puget Sound Tug and Barge Company breached a duty to the decedent, as an employee of an independent contractor, to provide him a safe place to work on Puget's premises where he was working at the time of his death.