Rosenberg v. Schwartz

The defendant Schwartz was the general contractor engaged in building a church in Brooklyn. He sublet the brick work to Blumkin and Schular, brick masons. At the time in question, the brick wall on one side of the church had reached a height of thirty or thirty-five feet and the masons were engaged in laying brick from a scaffold built on the outside of the wall. The scaffold was erected by extending beams from the interior of the building and placing planks thereon. The workmen stood on the planks while preparing the brick and laying them into the wall. The scaffold was not guarded in any…