Mitchell v. Cox

WATT, Justice.

¶ 1 Plaintiff Mitchell sued Defendant Cox IGA for damages arising from an accident occurring on Cox’s premises on July 8, 1993. Mitchell, an employee of Farm Fresh, Inc., had unloaded about 130 cases of milk from the bed of his delivery truck onto the platform of a hydraulic lift that was attached to the outside of the Cox IGA building, located in Newkirk, Oklahoma. The lift was designed to lower cargo from the level of the truck bed from which it had been unloaded to the ground. Mitchell and a Cox employee, who was operating the lift, were standing on its platform. While Cox’s…