Earl Hall v. Moveable Offshore, Inc.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The central question in this appeal sounds more like a riddle — Who was in control of a scaffold without feet? The jury had the answer, but the Trial Court thought otherwise. The jury was right — or more accurately, theirs was the exclusive province to determine the issue after sifting through contested facts — and accordingly we reverse the Trial Court’s judgment n. o. v. which dismissed Plaintiff’s ease.

The scenario in what would normally have been another multi-party donnybrook in which all lash out against each other, involves the following cast of characters in…