Armour v. Brazeau

Appellee worked, with others, for appellants as a whitewasher in one of their buildings. He and the others who worked with him made a scaffold to stand on, by putting two planks, two inches thick, twelve inches wide and sixteen feet long, on beams in the building-, the ends resting on the beams. Across these two planks they put three short pieces. While appellee and two others were standing on the scaffold, whitewashing, one of the planks broke, and appellee fell upon a dynamo and his leg was broken. He brought this suit to recover damages for the injury.

The declaration consists of three…