Ronan v. Eddy, Admr., (Et Al.)

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

These two workmen’s compensation cases growing out of the same accident and involving the same questions were argued together and will be disposed of in one opinion.

The claimants, Harry M. Ronan and Carl A. Anderson, sustained injuries in falling off a scaffold upon which they were standing while painting a rented dwelling house owned by LeRoy C. Eddy and Everett H. Eddy, his brother, who inherited this property from their mother, Cornelia E. Eddy, who died intestate.

LeRoy C. Eddy is an attorney-at-law and his brother is in the insurance business. They own, jointly,…