John Bouchard & Sons Co. v. Keaton

The defendant below, John Bouchard & Sons Company, a corporation, brought this case to this court by an appeal in error from a judgment against it for $1000 in favor of the plaintiff below, L. R. Keaton, but, as a matter of convenience, we will refer to L. R. Keaton as plaintiff and John Bouchard & Sons Company as defendant.

Shortly after the noon hour on August 31, 1927, while plaintiff was engaged in digging a post-hole at the foot of a concrete pier of the Jefferson Street bridge, near the bank of the Cumberland River, in the City of Nashville, a short bar of iron, about eight inches in…