Swaney v. Peden Steel Company

Was the foregoing evidence sufficient to go to the jury on the alleged negligence of the defendant and, if so, does plaintiff’s evidence establish his contributory negligence as a matter of law? These are the two questions for decision.

The defendant, as the designer and fabricator of the truss which collapsed during erection, was under the duty -to exercise reasonable care not only to furnish a framework which would sustain the load it was intended to carry after erection, but which would also withstand the ordinary stresses to which it would be subjected during erection by methods reasonably…