Barton-Mansfield Company v. Bogey

A scaffold on which appellee, John Bogey, was standing while repairing the roof of appellant’s lumber shed fell and he sued jointly, appellant, Barton-Mansfield Company, a corporation, and Calvin Carter, an employee, to recover damages in the sum of $8,000 to compensate for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him.

The negligence of appellant lumber company and Carter, its employee, alleged in appellee’s complaint was that Calvin Carter stacked against the scaffold upon which appellee vras standing more than “three times” the amount of lumber necessary to complete the repair of the roof…