Briere v. Lathrop Co.

The extent of our review is whether the jury’s verdict, as enlightened by its answer to the interroga*171tory quoted in the statement of facts, rests within legally fair confines established by the pleadings, evidence, and the court’s instructions.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges defendant’s carelessness and negligence in causing the scaffold he was using to go into an unguarded pit, topple, and cause plaintiff’s injuries resulting from a fall. Plaintiff further specifically set forth a number of allegations generally sounding in the assertion that defendant failed to provide for him a safe place to…