Joki v. McBride

delivered the Opinion of the Court.'

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment entered against him in the sum of $12,375 in the district court of Carbon County based upon a jury verdict. The case is an action for personal injuries resulting from a fall from a scaffold.

Plaintiff in the action is Matt E. Joki, a workman engaged as a carpenter’s helper in connection with building an additional room on a cabin located on the west fork of Rock Creek in Custer National Forest some thirteen miles from Red Lodge in Carbon county; he will hereafter be referred to as Joki. Defendant in the action…