Craver v. Franklin Cotton Mills, Inc.

The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a nightwatchman. It was his duty to keep watch on three floors of the mill, and once an hour in winding his clock to use keys which were “fastened to the upstairs and posts over the room.” In the performance of this duty he had to go up and down a stairway. At 9 o’clock on the night of 7 September, 1927, while he was going from the second floor to the basement his foot was caught in the loop of a small wire each end of which had been fastened by nails to the eighth step, and he was thereby thrown to the foot of the stairway and injured. The…