Slater v. Chapman

This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for an injury resulting from a fall while he was employed as a carpenter about the construction of a hotel, which the defendant was building at Bay Springs, in Charlevoix county.

The theory of the plaintiff upon the trial was that the injury was occasioned, without fault on his part, through the negligence of one Charles Sizer, who had the whole charge and management of the work and the workmen employed in the building of the hotel, and that the defendant was liable *524for the result of Sizer’s negligence, because he knew that Sizer was…