Ryan v. Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Co.

Haynes, C.

Action to recover damages for personal injuries, and this appeal is from the judgment and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The injury occurred March 20, 1890. Plaintiff was a carpenter by trade, and some two years prior to the accident was employed by the defendant in that capacity alone, but, after the completion of the buildings, he was used in making alterations and repairs when necessary, and as a general laborer, roustabout, or handy man. He was not an engineer, or machinist, or familiar with machinery at the time he entered defendant’s service, nor…