Bowers v. Eastern Aluminum Corp.

This is an appeal from a decision of a judge of the Baltimore City Court, sitting without a jury, which reversed an award by the Workmen’s Compensation Commission in favor of appellant, George Bowers, compensating him for temporary total disability and hospital expenses, resulting from an injury sustained during the course of his work.

In May of 1961, appellant was injured when a scaffold, upon which he was working with one Franklin Moyer, collapsed while the two were engaged in performing certain tasks “sublet” to them by appellee, a company active in the business of making home improvements.

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