ANDERSON v. HENSLEY-SCHMIDT, INC.

No. 57872.

530 So.2d 181 (1988)

Jeff C. ANDERSON v. HENSLEY-SCHMIDT, INC.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

August 24, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald C. Dornan, Jr., William L. Denton, Denton, Dornan & Bilbo, Biloxi, William Liston, Liston, Gibson & Lancaster, Winona, for appellant.

Michael T. Lewis, Nancy Allen Wegener, Luckett Law Firm, Clarksdale, for appellee.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and ANDERSON and GRIFFIN, JJ.


HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the court:

Jeff C. Anderson, as legal representative of George B. Anderson, deceased, appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Leflore County against Hensley-Schmidt, an engineering firm with offices in Jackson. Because of the error of the circuit court in granting a contributory negligence instruction, we reverse.

FACTS

On October 19, 1979, George B. Anderson and Boyd Lewis Kilpatrick were manual laborers employed...

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