GEORGE C. VAUGHAN & SONS v. DYESS

No. 7097.

323 S.W.2d 261 (1959)

GEORGE C. VAUGHAN & SONS, Appellants, v. W. L. DYESS et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, S. G. Kolius, Thomas A. Brown, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

James L. Read, Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd, George E. Pletcher, Albert P. Jones, Helm, Jones, McDermott & Pletcher, Houston, for appellees.


DAVIS, Justice.

W. L. Dyess, plaintiff-appellee, sued George C. Vaughan & Sons, a corporation, appellant-defendant, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained at appellant's place of business as a result of falling from a wooden scaffold built by appellant's employees when a 2 × 4 piece of lumber used in such scaffold broke under the weight of appellee. National Automobile & Casualty Insurance Company intervened in the suit to recover the amounts...

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