decorate the pavilion, that plaintiff Olson was one of the men; that such arrangements were made about July 7th or 8th; that he arranged with one Hiler of the Hiler Transfer Company to take certain equipment out to the pavilion, including a ladder to be used in putting up the decorations "especially the paper streamers." He testified that he was out at the pavilion the evening before the accident and observed the various articles that he had arranged to send out; that the step ladder was approximately fourteen feet high; that he saw it there that evening; that the ladder was usually kept in the property room off the stage and sometimes in the cloak room in the Temple. He testified that he had been *392 familiar withand the floor when Grove noticed him; that after the plaintiff fell Grove and Steenerson rushed to where he was and took him off the floor and later to the hospital; that they later came back and went on with their work; that after they were through with their work he kicked out the last step of the ladder so that people might know it was not fit to be used again.
Steenerson testified that he was one of the men who went to the pavilion on the morning of July 10, 1947, to assist in preparing the pavilion for the reception of the Imperial Potentate; that he brought the plaintiff Olson and Grove out in his car; that they arrived at the pavilion about 6 o'clock in the