Raines v. Tetley-Klein Lumber Co.

A scaffold broke down while plaintiff was on it engaged in work for defendant company, letting him fall to a sidewalk below and breaking a bone in his foot, for which injury he was awarded a verdict by the jury. In the conduct of its business in the city of Farmington, defendant uses an office and some sheds on a north and south street. At the time of the accident its office building was being reconstructed and enlarged by mechanics defendant employed by the day, and who were not under the superintendency of any one individual. Defendant’s president,. Tetley, or in his absence, the secretary,…