ASPLUND v. DRISKELL

Docket No. 10613.

225 Cal.App.2d 705 (1964)

37 Cal. Rptr. 652

HARDING W. ASPLUND, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. TED DRISKELL et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants; JOHN BURNIP et al., Defendants, Cross-defendants and Respondents; INDUSTRIAL INDEMNITY COMPANY et al., Interveners and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

March 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. McCarty for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Mento, Buchler & Littlefield, George K. Littlefield and Theodore H. Morrison for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

Bradford, Cross, Dahl & Hefner and John Quincy Brown, Jr., for Interveners and Appellants.

Rich, Fuidge, Dawson & Marsh and Richard H. Fuidge for Defendants, Cross-defendants and Respondents.


PIERCE, P.J.

These appeals are from a plaintiff's judgment (after a jury trial) for personal injuries suffered. Plaintiff, a workman standing upon equipment 15 feet above the ground, was trying to disengage an A-frame line from, and engage a load line of a swing boom crane (a "cherry picker") onto the front end assembly of a forklift. While he was so employed, the boom line of the crane broke, striking plaintiff and throwing him to the ground. Serious injuries resulted...

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