Terry Shipbuilding Corp. v. DuBose

The defendant, being engaged in building ships, employed the plaintiff to operate a drill motor and to countersink holes in the side of a ship, and in order to perform this' work the plaintiff stood on a scaffold, some 35 or 40 feet high, and while so engaged one of the unnailed and loose planks of the scaffold upon which he was standing “gave way, slipped, and turned,” causing him to be precipitated to the ground; and for the injuries occasioned by the fall he brought this suit against the master, alleging that the latter was negligent in failing to provide for him a reasonably safe place…