Smith v. Corson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Kalisch, J.

The facts found by the trial judge pertinent to the inquiry before us are as follows: The petitioner’s decedent was employed by the prosecutor as a carpenter and jobber; that on .the 21st day of April, 1913, the deceased was working on or about a building, which was in the course of erection by the prosecutor; that during the early part of the afternoon of that day the petitioner’s decedent fell from the end of a plank lying diagonally across a scaffold fourteen feet high and that as a result of his fall three ribs were broken, and his elbow…