Mulcahy v. Larson

The plaintiff was employed as a carpenter’s helper by the named defendant and was working on a scaffolding attached to a barn owned by the defendant Anderson. The staging collapsed and the plaintiff was injured. He sued Larson and Anderson, alleging that both were negligent, and a verdict of $3000 was rendered against Larson alone. The court denied the plaintiff’s motion to set the verdict aside as inadequate and the plaintiff has appealed.

The plaintiff fell from a height of about thirty feet. The evidence as to his injuries was not controverted. He had five broken ribs and fractures of his…