Zeis v. Kaechele

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LLOYD, J.

Plaintiff in error was defendant and defendant in error was plaintiff in the Court of Common Pleas.

Plaintiff was an employe of defendant and claimed to have been injured on March 16, 1925, by the falling of an alleged defectively constructed scaffold upon which he was standing, pursuant, as he claims, to directions of Benjamin F. Zeis, a carpenter, who had been employed by defendant to construct an addition to the building located on Miami Street and occupied by defendant as a lunchroom and gas filling station.

Plaintiff claimed that he too was employed by defendant to work…