Robert E. McKee, General Contractor, Inc. v. Patterson

HALE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of appellee for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by him when a ladder upon which he was working slipped and caused him to fall. The judgment was based upon jury findings that the injuries complained of were proximately caused by certain specific acts of negligence on the part of appellant in failing to exercise due care to furnish to appellee a reasonably safe place in which to perform the work upon which he was engaged at the time he was injured. Appellant predicates its appeal upon two points of error, viz.: (1) “The…