HILL v. HARBOR STEEL & SUPPLY CORP.

Calendar No. 7, Docket No. 49,936.

374 Mich. 194 (1965)

132 N.W.2d 54

HILL v. HARBOR STEEL & SUPPLY CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 4, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcus, McCroskey, Finucan, Libner & Reamon (Thomas W. Finucan, of counsel), for plaintiff Hill.

Landman, Grimm, Bradbury & Laurin (Lou L. Landman, of counsel), for plaintiff Michigan Mutual Liability Company.

Mitts, Smith & Haughey (Sherman H. Cone, of counsel), for defendant Harbor Steel & Supply Corporation.

Cholette, Perkins & Buchanan (Edward D. Wells, of counsel), for defendant General Dynamics Corporation.


SOURIS, J.

Woodrow Hill was employed by Fisher Steel & Supply Company as a "lead man", or working foreman, in its scrap yard. On the morning of December 24, 1958, while Hill and another Fisher Steel employee were preparing to put into operation a manifold welding unit, it exploded, killing Hill and his companion and injuring another workman.

The manifold welding unit had been designed and built for Fisher Steel by defendant Harbor Steel & Supply Corporation...

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