Benefield v. McDonough Construction Co.

106 Ga. App. 194 (1962)

126 S.E.2d 704

BENEFIELD

v.

McDONOUGH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF GEORGIA.

39358.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided June 15, 1962.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1962.

Calhoun & Calhoun, Merrell H. Collier, for plaintiff in error.

Lokey & Bowden, Hamilton Lokey, contra.

BELL, Judge.

1. The petition alleges that the plaintiff placed a thirty-foot high scaffold mounted on wheels and capable of rolling, on a concrete floor only twenty inches distant from a six-inch cut or depression in the floor. It should have been apparent to the plaintiff that a slight rolling of the scaffold could…