Reed v. Davis

Plaintiff recovered a verdict against the defend-

ant for $12,000. Defendant moves to set it aside on the following grounds, viz.:

“ First. The verdict was clearly excessive.

“ Second. There was material and substantial error in the submission of the question of ‘ Safe place to work/ to the Jury.”

The master’s duty to use ordinary care to furnish the servant with a reasonably safe place for his work is not restricted to the identical situs of the labor, but extends to the exercise of ordinary care to see that the means of egress and ingress and ways customarily used by the servant, in passing…