Threlkeld v. Anthony

Threlkeld brought .suit against Anthony to recover for personal injuries which he sustained when he fell from a scaffold on which he was standing while working as a carpenter on a building, the property of the. defendant. The plaintiff fell, because of the breaking of a plank in the scaffold on which he was standing. At the conclusion of the evidence’ on the trial of the case, the court directed a verdict in favor of the defendant, and to this ruling the plaintiff excepted. The defendant pleaded several defenses, one being that the house .was being erected by an independent contractor, one…