Texas Company v. Strange

RAINEY, Chief Justice.

Appellee brought this suit to recover of appellant damages on account of personal injuries received by him while in its services as a bricklayer. The injury was caused by the falling of a scaffold erected by appellant for the use of appellee to stand upon while laying brick in the walls of a building then in the course of construction for appellant. Negligence was charged against the company substantially as follows:

First. In failing to use ordinary care to furnish a safe work-place.

Second. In furnishing knotty, weak and unsound timber for the workmen to use in building…