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W. E. CLARK & SONS, INC. v. ELLIOTT

No. 5-5708.

475 S.W.2d 514 (1972)

W. E. CLARK & SONS, INC., Appellant, v. Eloise ELLIOTT, Adm'x., Lyons Machinery Co. and Patent Scaffolding Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 24, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

House, Holmes & Jewell, by Robert L. Robinson, Jr., Little Rock, for appellant.

McMath, Leatherman & Woods and Wright, Lindsey & Jennings and Barber, Henry & Thurman, Little Rock, for appellees.

HOLT, Justice.

Appellee Elliott's decedent husband was fatally injured when he fell 9 stories from a swinging-stage scaffold. The scaffold was suspended from the top of a 10-story building by two cables, one on each side of the scaffold, attached to window washer hooks affixed to the top of the building. The accident occurred as a result of a defective eye loop in one of the two cables. The eye loop pulled loose, causing one end of the scaffold to drop and the decedent...

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