Trotter v. E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Prince George county, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
This action was brought by Trotter against the defendant to recover damages for injuries received by him by the fall of a scaffold, erected by the defendant, and which the plaintiff was using in the course of his employment as the servant of the defendant at the time the injury was inflicted. The defendant offered no evidence, but at the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence demurred thereto. The trial court sustained the demurrer and entered judgment for the defendant, and to that judgment this writ of error was awarded.
On the oral argument in this court, counsel for the defendant abandoned…
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