New Mexico Forms Library

Decision Information

Decision Content

13-913. Duty to provide safe tools, etc.

            It was the duty of the railroad to use ordinary care to provide its employees with safe [tools] [machinery and appliances] with which to do their work and keep [it] [them] in a safe condition. In exercising ordinary care, the railroad need not necessarily provide the latest or best [tools] [machinery and appliances] which could have been provided to do the work.

 

USE NOTES

            This instruction shall be given in every case where the issue is a question of fact under the evidence.

 You are being directed to the most recent version of the statute which may not be the version considered at the time of the judgment.