HAND v. RORICK CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

No. 38701.

206 N.W.2d 835 (1973)

190 Neb. 191

Marvin HAND, Appellant, v. RORICK CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, a Nebraska corporation and Kehm Construction Company, a Nebraska corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Nebraska.

May 4, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

August Ross, Ross & O'Connor, Omaha, Robert Heithoff, Council Bluffs, for appellant.

John R. Douglas, of Cassem, Tierney, Adams & Henatsch, Omaha, for Rorick Constr. Co.

Boland, Mullin, Walsh & Cooney, Omaha, for Kehm Constr. Co., for appellees.

Heard before WHITE, C. J., and SPENCER, BOSLAUGH, SMITH, McCOWN, NEWTON, and CLINTON, JJ.


CLINTON, Justice.

This is an action in negligence against a general contractor by an employee of a masonry subcontractor for injuries sustained in a fall from a scaffold at the site of remodeling and construction of a school in Omaha, Nebraska. At the close of plaintiff's case-in-chief before a jury, the amended petition of plaintiff was dismissed and this appeal was taken.

On October 25, 1965, plaintiff was on a scaffold 20 feet above the ground, laying block...

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