Penson v. Inland Empire Paper Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered January 9, 1912, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff for $30,000, for personal injuries sustained by a painter in a fall from a scaffold.
1Opinion of the CourtEllis, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries resulting to the plaintiff from the falling of a scaffold on which he was standing while painting the inside of the roof of the defendant’s building. The building was about 230 feet long. The part of the interior of the building included within the slanting sides of the roof was divided into some eighteen sections by open framework which extended from the top of one side-wall to the top of the other and up to the apex of the roof, and consisted of a beam or girder resting upon the side-walls; from which beam, passing up and supporting…
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