McLemore McArthur v. Rogers

The testimony is sufficient to support the following-findings of fact, viewed in the light of thu verdict of the jury: Appellee was employed as a day .laborer by appellant firm in the work- of reconstructing a courthouse. On the occasion in question a steel beam of considerable weight and length was being- hoisted from the ground to the top of the north outside wall, which wall was about thirty-two feet high. Appellee was directed to stand on the ground near the wall and outside thereof and to manipulate a guy line attached to the beam, so that in its ascent the beam would not strike the wall…