Webb v. Lambert

Plaintiff, a negro brick mason, brings this suit for damages said to be due to physical injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of his having been struck in the back by a piece of timber, which, it is claimed, fell from an overhanging gallery attached to a building owned by defendants. Defendants answered admitting the ownership of the property from which the timber was alleged to have fallen, but denying any liability because “your respondents are under the belief that this plaintiff was not injured as set forth and is unjustly claiming damages from them.”

• There was judgment below…