was in general charge of the preparations for the reception that was to be held *400 on this particular occasion. He would be in the same position as the General Foreman on a construction crew and certainly if such a General Foreman made an admission that a ladder or other appliance was furnished to an employee in a defective condition, such an admission would be binding upon his principal and the admission of the Chief Rabban, in this case, that the ladder was in a defective condition when it was furnished to the plaintiff, would be binding on Kem Temple and would show knowledge on the part of the employer that it was aware of such defective condition. That being the case the jury had a perfect rightthat I know of."
In view of the fact that he was called as a witness for the defendant, the attorney for the defendant had a full opportunity to explain or modify the statement that he had made to Mr. Olson in the hospital, but no modification, or further explanation of that statement, was made and it therefore stands as the uncontradicted testimony in the case, that the ladder was in a defective condition at the time it was furnished to Mr. Olson, of which fact he, as an officer of the temple, had full knowledge and on that testimony alone the jury would be justified in arriving at the conclusion that the defendant was guilty of negligence.
L. B. Hiller was called as a witness for the Plaintiff and