...or spirit of the statute. The language of section 18 of the Labor Law is that: "A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind...erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, » » » which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so constructed, placed and operated...

...imposed upon them by this statute. Section 18 of the labor law provides that : "A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind...erect or cause to be furnished or erected for the per foriuauce of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders or other mechanical contrivances which...

...in the statute which requires every plank to be absolutely safe. The requirement is that the master "shall not furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished...contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable, or improper" ; and the evidence in this case, aside from the fact that this plank did break, fails to show that and 123...

...(Consol. Laws, c. 31), which provides that "a person employing or directing another to perform labor * * * shall not furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished...erected, for the performance of such labor, scaffolding * * * which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper," but that if the scaffolding was "safe, suitable and...

...correspondingly broad and general in its terms, so as to embrace every case where the person is called upon "to perform labor of any kind in the erection, repairing,...altering or painting of a house, building or structure." In terms, the statute protects the workmen in the use of a scaffolding for the alteration of any structure....

...(Consol. Laws 1909, c. 31) § 18, providing that a person employing or directing another to perform labor In the erection, repairing, altering, or painting...building, or structure shall not furnish or erect, for the performance thereof, scaffolding which Is unsafe, unsuitable, or improper, or not so constructed,...

...explicit, and means exactly what it says; that is, that a person employing or directing the performance of labor of any kind, in the erection, repairing, altering or painting of a house, building, or structure is negligent and responsible, if he furnishes, erects, or causes to be furnished or erected for the...

...one of the mechanical appliances contemplated by section 18 of the Labor Lav;, for it was not used in "the erection, repairing, altering or painting of a house, building or structure," but was a machine long in use and was not shown to have been in a dangerous condition by any evidence...

...LAW— SAFE Pr.ACF. TO WOUK. Laws ISO", c. 415, SM8 (Labor Law), providing that any person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection of a building shall not furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected, for the performance...

...reads : " A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection * * * of a house, building or structure shall not furnish...the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, * * * or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not...