Poos v. Fred Krug Brewing Co.

In my judgment the law controlling the decision should be announced as follows: It is the nondelegable duty of the master to exercise reasonable care to provide a reasonably safe place to work and to furnish reasonably safe and suitable appliances, and if he undertakes to perform that duty through another he acts at his own risk, and this rule may he applied where the master delegates to an employee the duty of holding a ladder when that act is essential to the safety of another employee required to work thereon as a part of a permanent plan of operation.

The action is one to recover damages…