Tautengan v. Zoller

The plaintiff, a carpenter, was engaged by the defendant to do carpenter work on a house in Detroit. The plaintiff was injured by falling from a scaffold under such circumstances as he claims makes his employer liable to him in damages, to recover which he brought this suit. At the close of the testimony offered by the plaintiff the circuit judge instructed the jury that

“This case is brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, who has not elected to come under the provision of the workmen’s compensation act, passed by *95the legislature in 1912, being Act No. 10. That act provided that in…