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COLLUM v. POPE & TALBOT, INC.

Docket No. 16306.

135 Cal.App.2d 653 (1955)

288 P.2d 75

LEWIS B. COLLUM et al., Appellants, v. POPE AND TALBOT, INC. (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

September 27, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Johnson, Thorne, Speed & Bamford for Appellants.

Lillick, Geary, Olson, Adams & Charles, Allan E. Charles, Frank L. Adamson, Campbell, Custer, Warburton & Britton, Austen D. Warburton and W.R. Dunn for Respondents.

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

Plaintiffs, journeymen carpenters working on a construction job, were injured when a ceiling joist broke under their weight. They brought this action for damages against Leo G. Cheim, the lumber dealer from whom their employer W.R. Kalsched, the general contractor, bought the joist, and against Pope and Talbot, Inc., the lumber mill operator who processed the joist and sold it to Cheim.

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