Bell v. Sugarwood Homes, Inc.

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment based on directed verdicts entered for two defendants in a case based on a personal injury sustained on a construction site. We affirm.

On September 23, 1988, Willie Bell sued Sugarwood Homes, Inc., Eddie Abbott, and various fictitiously named parties, to recover damages for personal injuries he sustained on September 14, 1987, while working for a brickmason subcontractor on the construction of a residence in Shelby County, Alabama. Bell alleged that the roofing subcontractor, Abbott, negligently dropped a piece of lumber onto Bell's head; that Sugarwood…