SARGENT v. JOHNSON

Nos. 74-1966, 75-1029 and 75-1030.

521 F.2d 1260 (1975)

Paul F. SARGENT, Appellee, v. Roger T. JOHNSON, Architect, and Axel H. Ohman, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation, Appellees, v. PRESTON HAGLIN CO., a Minnesota Corporation, Appellant. Paul F. SARGENT, Appellee, v. Roger T. JOHNSON, Architect, and Axel H. Ohman, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation, Appellees, v. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a Fourth-Party Defendant above named on behalf of and in the name of Preston Haglin Co., a Minnesota Corporation, insured of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company at the trial herein and Third-Party Defendant, Appellant. Paul F. SARGENT, Appellee, v. Roger T. JOHNSON, Architect, and Axel H. Ohman, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation, Appellees, v. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas D. Reid, Jr., Minneapolis, Minn., for appellants Preston Haglin Co. and Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

Robert G. Share, Minneapolis, Minn., filed a brief for appellee Preston Haglin Co.

Clint Grose, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee Paul F. Sargent.

David F. Fitzgerald, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee Axel H. Ohman, Inc.

O. C. Adamson, II, and Mary Jeanne Coyne, Minneapolis, Minn., filed brief for appellee, Roger T. Johnson.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge, and LAY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.


LAY, Circuit Judge.

Paul F. Sargent obtained a verdict for $1,600,000 against Axel H. Ohman, Inc. (Ohman), a Minnesota corporation and Robert T. Johnson, an architect, resulting from severe personal injuries received from a fall while working on a construction site on July 14, 1969. The district court, the Honorable Miles W. Lord, directed a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on liability and submitted the issues of comparative negligence and contribution among the...

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