Maryland Casualty Co. v. Jones

MARTIN, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Its general nature is sufficiently shown by the following quotation from appellee’s second amended original petition: “Plaintiff would further show that on the 13th day of November, 1931, he was employed as a day laborer and carpenter’s, helper in the construction of the aforesaid building and while working on a scaffold about ten feet, more or less, above the ground, through the negligence of said construction company said scaffold fell and plaintiff was catapulted to the concrete floor where a heavy timber fell, breaking plaintiff’s…