step ladder, had been delivered. They first conferred with respect to the work to be done and the division of the work. Steenerson had decorated the stage on previous occasions. It was agreed that he and Grove should work at that and that in decorating the main hall the plaintiff Olson should fasten the streamers on the wire and that Misner and Hoffman should place the ends of the streamers at the sides as they hung from the wire. The plan for decorating the main hall was to create a tent-like appearance with paper streamers coming from the wire and fastened at the sides.
Plaintiff testified that only one ladder had been brought and left at the pavilion for use of the men in their work; that it wasthe step on which he then stepped was probably about six or seven feet from the floor; that the step tilted and he started to fall; that he did not lose his balance, that it was the tilt that caused him to fall; that at the place the accident occurred the wire was approximately sixteen feet above the floor; that he did not see the ladder after the accident and did not know personally whether the step broke.
It is undisputed that plaintiff sustained severe personal injuries as a result of the fall.
Pierce testified that in July 1947 he was acting Potentate (chief officer) of the defendant corporation and that one McIver was stage director; that as acting Potentate he instructed McIver, the stage director, to make the necessary