Brooks v. Sam Lochner Builders, Inc.

Rees, J.:

Respondent Sam Lochner Builders, Inc., appeals and claimant Gary L. Brooks cross-appeals from an award of worker’s compensation to claimant.

Lochner, a home builder, was building a house in the city of Olathe. The trim carpentry portion of the construction was undertaken by an individual who had bid the work on a job basis at an agreed price of $750. Because of illness, that workman left the job with the work fifty to seventy-five percent completed. Lochner and Brooks, a trim carpenter, made an agreement for completion of the trim carpentry in the house. Because the work was partially…