McGrath v. Walsh

The defendants were engaged in erecting a building in One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth street, in the city of Hew York, and plaintiff was there employed by them as a hod-carrier. On the 20th day of May, 1887, he was ordered by the foreman to carry to one of the upper floors of such uncompleted building a pail of water for use in tempering mortar. He started to ascend a ladder provided and erected by defendants for the use of their employes, having the pail of water in one hand, and he alleges that when near the top thereof a rung of said ladder upon which he stepped tu rned under his foot whereby…