Swearingen v. Bell

POPE, Justice.

The trial court granted a summary judgment in favor of defendant, Mary Bell, in a suit brought by plaintiff, Thomas F. Swearingen, for personal injuries which resulted from a fall from a defective ladder while he was repairing one of defendant’s rental apartments.

*133The pleadings, affidavits and a deposition show that plaintiff is a carpenter by trade, and that he owed defendant nine weeks’ rent for .one of her apartments which he occupied. On March 13, 1956, plaintiff was doing some carpenter work for defendant as her employee. He had been working on ladders for about two hours,…