C. F. Hamblen, Inc. v. Owens

While engaged as a clerk in the hardware business of the plaintiff in error, defendant in error fell from a stepladder and received injuries from which he was forced to have his left leg amputated above the knee. He brought this action for personal injuries and recovered a judgment for $8,000.00 to which writ of error was prosecuted.

The first question we are urged to. answer is whether or not the stepladder from which defendant in error fell was such a simple tool or appliance as to make him chargeable with knowledge of its defects, if any, equally with his master.

The common or simple tool…