Washburn v. Skogg

The following opinion was filed December 9, 1930 :

Fowler, J.

The submission of the case to the jury was upon the two grounds laid in the complaint: (1) violation of an order of the industrial commission requiring a handrail to stairways; (2) violation of the safe-place statute. The jury found for the plaintiff upon both grounds.(1) The ‘defendants contend that the evidence shows that the means of access to the storeroom is not a stairway but a ladder. Thirty pages of defendants’ brief are devoted mostly to argument in support of this contention and eighteen of plaintiff’s to show that it is a…