Knapp v. Voorhis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The defendant below had in his employ a number of servants, of whom the plaintiff below was one, engaged in shingling a roof, and in order to do this a scaffold or platform attached to the roof was required to support the workmen while putting on the shingles. The master furnished iron brackets and planks with which one or more of the servants working with the plaintiff below constructed a scaffold or platform. To properly put up the platform it was necessary to slip a lug at the upper end of the bracket between shingles already fastened in…