Joseph E. Dillingham v. Smith-Douglass Company, Incorporated

ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.

Dillingham, hurt in a fall from a defective scaffold while employed by an independent contractor installing a warehouse sprinkler system for the appellee, charged liability for his injuries to the appellee as the contractee-owner of the premises. The scaffold’s defectiveness existed in a knot in a high horizontal cross-timber, a permanent structural brace in thé building, which was utilized in place by Dillingham as a support for a board forming the floor of the scaffolding. Against an adverse verdict, directed solely on the evidence, Dillingham appeals.

Appellee…