Riverside Mills v. Brooks

Brooks sued the Biverside Mills, alleging, in substance, that tbe defendant directed the overhead shafting, in one of the loom rooms of its factory, removed for the purpose of making some changes therein;- that in order for the workmen to reach this shafting, a temporary scaffold was provided, consisting of three work-horses or benches placed in a line, a short distance apart, upon which was placed a flooring of planks; that the plaintiff had been assigned by the defendant to work in the picker room, and on the day of the injury was called therefrom and directed to take his place on this…