Murphy v. Ray

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

— Reversing.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries brought by the appellee against the appellant, there was a judgment against the appellant for five hundred dollars. That the verdict was against the weight of the evidence, an inspection of the record leaves little room to doubt, although, perhaps, not so flagrantly against it as to authorize a reversal for this cause.

*385The cause of action was based on the ground that the appellant, at whose house.the appellee was worMng as a plasterer, furnished appellee a defective and unsafe scaffold on wMch…