Legal Opinion
Virden v. Betts and Beer Const. Co., Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided January 23, 2003No. 01-0596PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEUMAN, Justice.
Plaintiff, Ron Virden, worked in the maintenance department of Indianola High School. On the first day of school in 1997, Virden’s supervisor asked him to reinstall an angle iron that had fallen from the ceiling of the school’s new wrestling room. As Virden was bolting the angle iron into place, he fell from the top of the ten-foot ladder on which he was standing. He sustained severe injuries to his left leg, requiring several surgeries.
Virden sued the contractors, defendants Betts & Beer Construction and Stroh Corporation, who earlier in the year had installed the wrestling…
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