Chambers v. American Tin Plate Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. Action for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employ, by the fall of a scaffolding on which he was standing when laying brick in a wall of a building in course of construction. Upon the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, Wing, District Judge, instructed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
LURTON, Circuit Judge.
The defendant was erecting for its own use a large brick mill. It supplied the materials and hired masons and carpenters by the day, and the work was carried on under the general direction of a superintendent. A scaffolding was constructed out of material furnished by the defendants for the use of the masons in the prosecution of their work. This scaffold fell while the plaintiff was standing thereon engaged in laying brick. The petition charges that the fall was due to defective and unfit materials and also to negligent construction. The falling of a staging or scaffold…
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