Hearn v. Quillen
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Wicomico County (Holland, J.) The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff for $1,500.
1Opinion of the CourtSchmucker, J.
The appellee was employed by the appellants as an assistant sawyer in operating a steam, saw-mill owned by them. While working at the mill he was seriously injured by the falling in upon him of the roof of a house or shed which the appellants were having erected over the mill.
The roof when it fell was in process of construction by two men named respectively Esham and Walston. The evidence tended to show that Esham was a boss carpenter and knew how to build houses, but it does not appear that- he was erecting the shed as an independent contractor. Neither does the record show, that Walston was…
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