Parker v. Pantages Theater Co.

The appellant operates a theater in the city of Spokane and on August 12, 1925, there was attached to the front of the building a large vertical, electric sign, and on that day the appellant desired to háve the light globes in the sign washed and employed the respondent, an inexperienced man, to assist in doing the work. It was necessary for a scaffold to be made and furnished by the appellant, and on this scaffold the respondent was standing when it broke; he fell so.me twenty feet onto the cement roof and was as a result permanently injured, and this action has been brought for the recovery…