PURPOSE: To make it possible to greatly reduce a burden on a worker engaged in overhead work, etc., to enable the reduction of material cost and to eliminate restrictions on designing as many as possible.

CONSTITUTION: A bearing member 3 is so constituted that a wall side bracket 4, a square pipe frame 5, a bearing plate 6 and a post side bracket 7 are connected to each other. The wall side bracket 4 is fixed to a skeleton wall W, the square pipe frame 5 having one end connected to the wall side bracket 4 is extended through between panel members 2p and 2p as a middle rail of a partition 2, and the bearing plate 6 is connected to the other end thereof. The bearing plate 6 is connected to the post side bracket 7, and the post side bracket 7 is connected to the upper part of a post 1s of a hand-rail 1. According to the constitution, bearing construction can be constructed without using mullion construction, and the bearing construction can be used for both hand-rail bearing and middle rail function of the partition.