Nolen v. F. O. Engstrum Co.

The defendant appeals from the judgment and from an order denying its motion for new trial.

The plaintiff recovered judgment for damages alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was employed by defendant to work as a carpenter in a building which the defendant was erecting, and was put to work upon a scaffold constructed in the building as a place upon which the workmen were to stand when at work on the building; that while plaintiff was so engaged the scaffold gave way, in consequence whereof he fell and received the injuries…