RALSTON PURINA CO. v. FARLEY

No. 88-SC-000065-DG.

759 S.W.2d 588 (1988)

RALSTON PURINA COMPANY, Movant, v. Jeffrey D. FARLEY; R & W Construction Company, Inc.; and Condo Manufacturing Company, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

October 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Connolly, David Houston Ward, Stites & Harbison, Louisville, for movant.

Cecil Davenport, C.A. Dudley Shanks, Fred Stair, Victor W. Ewen, Louisville, for respondents.


VANCE, Justice.

The question is whether a warning of a dangerous condition in the premises given by the occupier of the premises to an independent contractor absolves the occupier of the premises from liability to an employee of a subcontractor who sustained an injury by reason of that condition of the premises. We hold that it does. The appellant, Ralston Purina Company, the owner and occupier of a building, employed R & W Construction Company, Inc., an independent...

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