Glass v. Gens-Jarboe, Inc.

Plaintiff, who was employed by a painting subcontractor, brought this action against the general contractor for personal injuries sustained while doing painting in a building under construction by defendant. The accident resulted from the collapse of a scaffold which plaintiff and a coemployee had rigged up. The cause of the accident was a defective plank *380which plaintiff had selected and taken from a stack of planks in a nearby corridor. The planks were not the property of either plaintiff’s employer or defendant. They had been left there by the plastering subcontractor. Plaintiff had been…