Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Theorell

Mr. Presiding Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff was in the service of the defendant and the-law imposed upon the defendant the duty to use reasonable care to furnish the plaintiff a reasonably safe place to work. The defendant may be regarded as having furnished to the carpenters employed to erect the coal bins, the elevated railroad structure as a scaffold to be used in such work. Considering the top of this structure as the floor of the scaffold so furnished, the evidence shows that it was twelve . feet wide, that its floor was made of flat ties placed six inches…