MacK v. United States Gypsum Co.

Per Curiam,

Plaintiff, Edward Mack, was employed by a builder to do common labor in the erection of an apartment house. During the course of the construction of this building, defendant company operated a hoist, such as is commonly used to carry materials to and from upper floors of structures in course of erection. Running along the outside of the building, at the level of the third floor, was a scaffold platform, through which the hoist shaft extended. The platform was six feet wide, except where it passed this shaft; there it was but two feet wide, the remaining four feet being occupied by…