Bathrick v. Village of Burr Oak

The village of Burr Oak,- carrier of its own workmen’s risk, through one of its trustees, employed plaintiff to cut some electric wires and to take down and shorten the outside pipe conduit at its community building in order to enable other workmen to install a door. Permission to cut the ■wires, if plaintiff was employed for the purpose, was granted by the Consumers Power company. While cutting the wires plaintiff fell from a stepladder and broke a bone in his left ankle. The work he was employed to perform would not have taken more than three hours. No wage was agreed upon but plaintiff…