Meyer v. Williams

McGHEE, Justice.

The worm has finally turned. The books are full of cases where an employee has sued his employer for injuries received on unsafe premises, but in this case the employer has sued his employees for leaving the grille off a furnace hole unattended while one employee went outside to consult a fellow employee about the work, thus creating, as he claims, a trap in his own home into which he stepped and which caused -him to sustain serious bodily injuries. From a verdict for the defendants the employer has prosecuted this appeal. We will refer to the parties as they appeared in the…