124 A. 550 | N.H. | 1924
The defendants base their contention that the court erred when it denied their motion for a directed verdict on the proposition that it conclusively appears that the place where the accident happened was neither one they had prepared for the plaintiff's use nor one they knew he was accustomed to use in doing their work. *223
It is probably true that the defendant did not put the timbers on the side of the elevator well to enable their employees to enter the building from the loading platform, but it does not follow that they are necessarily free from fault, for the plaintiff's evidence tends to prove that they knew it was the custom for their employees to enter the building in that way when the other door was closed, as it was on the day of the accident.
If that was the fact, it was for the jury to say whether the defendants did what the ordinary man would have done to notify the plaintiff of the danger of which he complains, for the duty the law imposes on an employer in respect to his premises extends not only to such parts as he has prepared for their use (Straw v. Company,
Exceptions overruled.
All concurred.