Jourdenais v. Hayden

The defendant owned and operated a store on a very busy street in the city of Rutland. He purchased an electric sign therefor, and engaged the Reed Electric Company to install it. That company sent its employees with tools and equipment to the defendant’s store to do the job. The defendant told these men, Allard and Severance, where, on the face of the building, he wanted the sign placed, and they went to work. They took a ladder which they had brought with them, erected it against the front of the building with the foot of it four to six feet from the wall, and to keep it from slipping,…