Fuery v. Rego Co.

The plaintiff, while painting the outside window frames of the defendant’s plant, fell from his scaffold when someone inside the plant opened a window, knocking the scaffold over. He allegedly sustained certain injuries for which the jury awarded him *34,000. The defendant has contended first in its post-trial motion and now on appeal that (1) there was no evidence that the defendant was responsible for the accident and (2) the *34,000 award was against the manifest weight of the evidence in that the fractures in the right hand shown in the X rays pre-existed the fall from the ladder and were not…