HEATH v. SIMS BROS. CONST. CO., INC.

86-1486.

529 So.2d 994 (1988)

Albert A. HEATH v. SIMS BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Rhea of Rhea, Boyd & Rhea, Gadsden, for appellant.

James C. Inzer III of Inzer, Suttle, Swann & Stivender, Gadsden, for appellee.


ALMON, Justice.

Sims Brothers Construction Co., Inc., ("Sims Brothers") was the general contractor constructing a shopping center near Anniston, Alabama. Albert Heath was employed as a sheetrock finisher by Bonners Acoustical Contractors, a subcontractor engaged by Sims Brothers to perform sheetrock work on the project. On July 2, 1984, Heath was working on a scaffold six feet above a concrete floor. In the area where he was working, there were holes in the floor...

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