Guthrie v. Gillespie

This is an action for damages for personal injuries — a master-and-servant case. The plaintiff (appellant) had a verdict below for $9000, which, on defendant's motion for a new trial, was set aside as being against the weight of the evidence.

The ultimate charge in the appellant's petition is that the respondent failed to provide him with a safe place of work. The gist of his case, on the facts, is that he was assigned to work on a scaffold furnished by the respondent, in repairing the roof of a house. Owing to structural defects the scaffold collapsed and appellant fell to the ground breaking…