BRIGHT v. CARGILL, INC.

No. 66,352

251 Kan. 387 (1992)

837 P.2d 348

SAMUEL RONALD BRIGHT, Appellant/Appellee, v. CARGILL, INCORPORATED, Appellee, and LABOR SOURCE, INC., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed July 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ken M. Peterson, of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chartered, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Tim J. Moore, of the same firm, and J. Douglas McCalla, Roy A. Jacobson, Jr., and Philip White, Jr., of Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, of Jackson, Wyoming, were with him on the briefs for appellant/appellee Bright.

Darrell L. Warta, of Foulston & Siefkin, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Craig W. West, of the same firm, was with him on the brief for appellee Cargill, Inc.

James Borthwick, of Blackwell Sanders Matheny Weary & Lombardi, of Overland Park, argued the cause, and Mary E. Kenney, of the same firm, was with him on the briefs for appellee/appellant Labor Source, Inc.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

SIX, J.:

This is a personal injury negligence action arising in a workers compensation setting. The case relates to the interplay between tort and workers compensation remedies within the relationships of statutory, special, general, and dual employers and employees.

The instant appeal involves two separate appellate alignments. The first postures plaintiff Samuel Bright against defendant Cargill, Incorporated...

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