COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INTERN., LTD. v. ESPEY

81-511, 81-511A, 81-519 and 81-519A.

429 So.2d 955 (1983)

COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, LTD., MacMillan Bloedel, Inc., and MacMillan Bloedel Particle Board, Inc. v. Joe Ree ESPEY. COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, LTD., MacMillan Bloedel, Inc., and MacMillan Bloedel Particle Board, Inc. v. Jerry D. LEE. COLUMBIA-EASTERN, INC. v. Joe Ree ESPEY. COLUMBIA-EASTERN, INC. v. Jerry D. LEE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied April 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Norman and Robert L. Williams of Norman, Fitzpatrick & Wood, Birmingham, for appellant Columbia Engineering, Ltd.

Larry W. Harper of Porterfield, Scholl, Bainbridge, Mims & Harper, Birmingham, for appellants MacMillan Bloedel, Inc. & MacMillan Bloedel Particle Board, Inc.

Bibb Allen of London, Yancey, Clark & Allen, Birmingham, for appellant Columbia-Eastern, Inc.

Lanny S. Vines and Lloyd W. Gathings of Emond & Vines, Birmingham, for appellees Joe Ree Espey and Jerry D. Lee.


JONES, Justice.

These consolidated appeals arose out of personal injuries sustained in 1974 by Joe Ree Espey and Jerry D. Lee, Plaintiffs/Appellees, when they fell from a scaffold while working for their employer, Mitchell Engineering Company (Mitchell), on the construction site of the MacMillan Bloedel particle board plant in Pine Hill, Alabama.

Plaintiffs originally sued MacMillan-Bloedel, Inc. (MacMillan), Louisville Ladder Company (manufacturer of the...

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