Griffiths v. Wolfram

Defendants, as partners, were erecting a machine-shop on their own ground in Mankato. One Wysong, a bricklayer, was doing the brick-work for the engine-room, furnishing labor and materials at so much per thousand bricks, under a special contract with the defendants. Among other things, he was constructing in the cor*186ner of the engine-room a small apartment, seven or eight feet square, to be used as a place of deposit for shavings. This apartment was to be covered with a brick arch. A wooden frame-work, (or, as it is styled in the complaint, a centre-piece,) over which to build the arch, was by…