Comeau v. Brown-Wales Co.

Exceptions overruled. The plaintiff, a builder and a contractor, went to the premises of the defendant which sold steel products for the purpose of taking delivery of a steel grille. He was directed to a loading platform upon which rested various shipments of steel products including angle irons. There he became engaged in assisting an employee of the defendant in dragging the grille toward his truck. While walking backward “he looked over his shoulder to make sure he had a place to walk” at which time the cuff of his trouser leg caught on an angle iron causing him to fall and sustain injury.…