McIntyre v. McIntyre

In the case of Haakensen v. Company, 76 N. H. 443, on which' the plaintiff relies, liability is held to depend on whether the employer undertakes to furnish his workmen a complete staging or leaves to them the task of preparing the structure for their own use. In the one instance the master’s duty is a non-delegable one; in the other, his only obligation is to provide proper materials for the erection of the structure and to employ competent men to do the work.

There was evidence in the Haakensen case that the defendant intrusted to its carpenters the duty of building all stagings on which the…