Coffin v. Bloodworth

This is an appeal by defendants in an action for damages. The plaintiff and respondent, while in the employ of appellants, undertook to replace an electric light bulb on the roof of appellants ’ service station^ and while doing so fell to the ground, a distance of about sixteen feet. Certain injuries sustained as a result of the fall, together with the alleged negligence of appellants, are the basis of the action herein.

Appellants at the time of the accident had neither compensation insurance nor a “certificate of consent to self-insure” from the Industrial Accident Commission, as provided by…