Bayer v. Grocholski

The trial court directed a verdict for the defendants. Unless we are willing to apply the rule res ipsa loquitur to the extreme limit of holding that proof of an accident alone is sufficient proof of negligence to take a case to the jury in an action brought by a servant against the master for negligence, the case must be affirmed.

The plaintiff was injured by the falling of a temporary scaffold which had been erected by an independent contractor engaged in the repair of defendants’ dwelling house, in the city of Detroit. Plaintiff *326testifies that he was employed by defendant Stanislaus…