Fellows v. Stevens

Defendants engaged to install in. the manufacturing plant of another an automatic sprinkler system. They sent materials and tools and other instrumentalities for carrying on the work. Among them were stepladders, seven or eight in number, which were selected by them, and transferred to the place where the work was to be carried on. Plaintiff is a pipe fitter, and was one of five men sent by defendants to do the work. One of these men, Barnard, was foreman. The plaintiff offered testimony tending to prove: That during the progress of the work he was told by Barnard to use in his work a ladder…