Baumann v. Hutchinson

This is a personal injury action in which plaintiff recovered judgment, and defendant has appealed.

The errors relied on for reversal are that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict, and the giving and refusing of instructions to the jury. The record reflects the following facts:

Plaintiff was thrown from a ladder and received the injuries of which he complains. He was standing on the ladder, washing a second-story window of a business building in the city of Norfolk. The building abutted on the south side of a paved public alley, 16 feet in width. The ladder was placed in the…