Batson-Cook Co. v. Shipley

Pannell, Presiding Judge.

Barricades, as is quite commonly known, are generally used to deter people from moving from one geographical location to another. This is accomplished in two (2) ways, to wit: One, barricades serve as warnings; and two, barricades physically impede the passage of a person from one location to another. A barricade is not usually a scaffold. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a barricade is not expected to bear the weight of a man, however great or small, when he is working around it. The courts take judicial cognizance of matters of common knowledge and common…