Rimmke v. Gierich

Mr. Presiding Justice Wolfe

delivered the opinion of the court.

Arthur Eimmke .was a tenant in the apartment house of George and Mary Gierieh, who owned the building as joint tenants. Arthur Eimmke with George Gierieh, and a man named Albert Bauer, erected a scaffold in the hallway so that it could be redecorated. The scaffold was made by placing planks 2x12 and about twelve feet long on horses that were owned by the defendants. The planks were procured from a neighboring building. Each of the men carried one from a pile of used lumber, to the defendants’ building, and placed them on the…