arrangements to have the pavilion at the State fair grounds prepared and decorated for the festivities to be had incident to the reception of the Imperial Potentate. Pierce further testified that he was quite familiar with the ladder from which the plaintiff Olson fell and had been so for some sixteen years. He said the ladder was a flimsy, rickety ladder and was wobbly. He stated that he saw the ladder at the pavilion the evening before the accident occurred, but made no inspection of it. In answer to a question whether there was anything wrong with the ladder other than he had stated he answered "no." He further testified that he was acquainted with Olson, the plaintiff; that after the accident he visited him at the hospitalseveral times and that on one or two of these occasions he told him the ladder was so unsafe it should never have been sent out to the pavilion at all.
McIver testified that in July 1947 he was stage director of the defendant corporation; that the stage director is appointed by the Potentate and an active member of the appointive divan; that as stage director he had a crew of twenty-four men working under his direction; that he was instructed by the Potentate to have the pavilion at the fair grounds decorated and put in proper shape for the reception of the Imperial Potentate. That the defendant had a lot of equipment to be used for occasions of that kind and that he made arrangements with men to