H. G. Nunnelley Co. v. Prather

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Appellee is a man of thirty-three years of age, and at the time of the injury herein complained of had been doing different kinds of carpenter word for twelve years. He alleges that while at work for appellant in the construction of a house at Georgetown he was directed by appellant’s foreman to get on the top of a nail keg so that he could reach up and do certain things in the construction of the house; that while so engaged the keg, *158which was insufficient and dangerous for the purpose for which he was directed to use it, slipped from under him…