Cain v. Friend

Plaintiff appeals from judgment entered upon directed verdict in this personal injury action.

Defendants, husband and wife, owned their home, and had commenced construction of an addition to it. The husband, a joiner, was building the addition in his spare time. He and his wife had known plaintiff, a journeyman carpenter, for some years. Defendants asked plaintiff’s mother to have him come to see them. He did. They discussed the construction work on defendants’ home. Plaintiff expected that he would not be employed for two or three days, and volunteered to do a portion of the building job…