PATTERSON v. MARKHAM & ASSOCIATES

No. COA95-653.

474 S.E.2d 400 (1996)

Tracy PATTERSON, Employee, Plaintiff, v. MARKHAM & ASSOCIATES and Sunstar Homes, Employers, Consolidated Administrators and North Carolina Home Builders Fund, Carrier, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 6, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Holt Felmet, Lillington, for plaintiff-appellant.

Maupin Taylor Ellis & Adams, P.A. by M. Reid Acree, Jr., Raleigh, and Richard M. Lewis, Fayetteville, for defendant-appellee Sunstar Homes.

The Sanford Law Firm by Wanda Blanche Taylor, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee North Carolina Home Builders Self Insurers Fund.


WYNN, Judge.

On 11 December 1992, plaintiff Tracy Patterson suffered an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment when he fell from a scaffold while working for defendant Markham & Associates ("Markham"). Plaintiff's accident occurred on a project that defendant Sunstar Homes ("Sunstar")—the principal contractor—had subcontracted Markham to perform carpentry work on the Village Lake Subdivision in Wake County, North Carolina...

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