Williams v. Gordon

Judge Helm

Affirming in part, reversing in part.

On July 17,1941, appellee, Robert L. Gordon, 47, was working as a carpenter for appellant, R. R. Williams, a contractor. He was standing on an eight-foot step ladder drilling a hole in an iron column at the corner of a building with an electric drill; the ladder “creeled and spun around” with him, causing him to fall and strike the lower part of his back against a window sill or “bulkhead.” A doctor rendered first aid and then treated him at his home regularly for about a month. Because of his family he needed to work. He could not do the work he…