Orr v. Johnson

Appellee brought suit against appellant, a road' contractor, for damages for personal injury resulting from his leg being injured or broken by an I-beam falling over and striking him and crushing it while he was engaged with others in setting up on edge bridge stringers and I-beams, on the ground where they had been unloaded for construction of the bridge near by.

The men had set up three or four of the stringers and were attempting to set up another, which was lying diagonally across one of the other stringers, and, being unable to move it, appellee, Johnson, procured a rail and, while…