SPENCER v. G.A. MacDONALD CONSTR. CO.

Docket No. 15213.

63 Cal.App.3d 836 (1976)

134 Cal. Rptr. 78

LESTER SPENCER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. G.A. MacDONALD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

November 16, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hews & Munoz, Hews, Munoz & Robinson, Arthur N. Hews and Gerald H.B. Kane, Jr., for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Robert E. Cartwright, Edward I. Pollock, Leroy Hersh, David B. Baum, Robert G. Beloud, Ned Good, Arne Werchick, Stephen I. Zetterberg, Roger H. Hedrick, Leonard Sacks and Robert Steinberg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs and Eleanore M. Weaver for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

McDANIEL, J.

Plaintiff filed suit against the defendant for severe and permanent personal injuries suffered in a fall from a scaffold while employed as an apprentice roofer by a subcontractor at a residential construction project on which defendant was the general contractor. The jury found for defendant and judgment was entered accordingly. Plaintiff appeals from the judgment.

FACTS

Defendant was the general...

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