Zvanovich v. Gagnon & Co.

On the twenty-eighth day of November, 1910, the defendant corporation was engaged in the construction of the new wings, *181or additions, to tbe state capitol building at Helena, and plaintiff was in its employ as a laborer .or “boom” man; bis duties being to shift and guide the boom of a large derrick used in hoisting building materials from the ground to different places on the building. He charges that, in disregard of its duty to use ordinary care to furnish him a reasonably safe place in which to work, it carelessly left an open shaft in the building unguarded, and, while passing through the…