McNamara v. Macdonough
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco denying a motion for a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The Court.
Action to recover damages for a personal injury suffered by plaintiff, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendants in constructing a scaffold on which they employed plaintiff to work as a hod-carrier, and by the breaking and falling of which plaintiff was injured.
The cause was tried by a jury. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars. Defendants appeal from the judgment, and from an order denying their motion for a new trial.
At the time of the accident the defendants were constructing a building known as the “ California…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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