Haxer v. Griessel
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Murphy, J. Case by Frank Haxer against Adam G. Griessel and J. Henry Leuzen, copartners as Griessel & Leuzen, for personal injuries. A judgment for defendants on a verdict directed by the court is reviewed by plaintiff on writ of error. The appellant, a carpenter 69 years of age, was injured by falling from a scaffold which was broken down by a falling ladder.
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Error to Wayne; Murphy, J. Case by Frank Haxer against Adam G. Griessel and J. Henry Leuzen, copartners as Griessel & Leuzen, for personal injuries. A judgment for defendants on a verdict directed by the court is reviewed by plaintiff on writ of error. The appellant, a carpenter 69 years of age, was injured by falling from a scaffold which was broken down by a falling ladder. The scaffold upon which he was working at the time of his injury was built by himself and his fellow workmen; it was only six or seven feet high, and was of sufficient strength to sustain the weight of two men. Appellant…
1Opinion of the CourtBrooke, J.
(after stating the facts). A careful reading of the record impels us to the conclusion, that the question of defendants’ negligence should have been submitted to the jury. While the placing of the ladder in the position in which it stood at the time of the accident, and its use by Bishop while in that position, may be said to indicate reasonable care upon his part, or at least to afford no evidence of negligence, we are still of the opinion that his leaving it, even for the time necessary for him to change his paints, leaning against the freshly-painted* slippery edge of the roof of the bay…
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