Gallespie v. Thornton

The defendant in error sued plaintiff in error in the Circuit Court of Duval County for damages alleged to have been sustained while engaged as a workman on a building which was being erected under contract by the plaintiff in error.

The first count of the declaration alleges that.the injury for which damage is claimed was occasioned by the plaintiff in error negligently, carelessly and unskillfully providing a place for the defendant in error to work, in the following language:

“It was necessary to stand on certain pans in the floor of the said building; that the defendant, by his said…