State Ex Rel. Horspool v. Haid

Certiorari to the St. Louis Court of Appeals.

Samuel Jackson Forsythe recovered judgment against the relator, Henry J. Horspool, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis for $3500. On appeal to the St. Louis Court of Appeals the judgment was affirmed. It is claimed by relator that the ruling of the Court of Appeals is in conflict with certain rulings of this court.

Forsythe was employed by Horspool as a carpenter in the construction of a dwelling house in the city of St. Louis and was injured by the collapse of a scaffold upon which he was working.

The opinion of the Court of Appeals sets…