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DILLINGHAM v. SMITH-DOUGLASS COMPANY

No. 7718.

261 F.2d 267 (1958)

Joseph E. DILLINGHAM, Appellant, v. SMITH-DOUGLASS COMPANY, Incorporated, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Harris and Robert M. Furniss, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (Taylor, Gustin & Harris, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Jack E. Greer, Norfolk, Va. (Lawson Worrell, Jr., and Williams, Cocke, Worrell & Kelly, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and BRYAN, District Judge.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.

Dillingham, hurt in a fall from a defective scaffold while employed by an independent contractor installing a warehouse sprinkler system for the appellee, charged liability for his injuries to the appellee as the contractee-owner of the premises. The scaffold's defectiveness existed in a knot in a high horizontal cross-timber, a permanent structural brace in the building, which was utilized in place by Dillingham as a support for a...

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