Munson v. Mistretta

Plaintiff brings this action in tort, seeking to recover in damages for injuries sustained when one of the boards of a scaffold on which he was working broke and he fell to the ground. He alleges that he had been employed by defendant to do certain stucco work on a building of defendant, and that the said defendant "erected or caused to be erected a certain scaffold for petitioner to work on" and that defendant represented to him that the scaffold was "good and strong and sufficient for the required work." He avers also that he, himself, was not in any way at fault and he charges that the…