Ballenger v. ITT Grinnell Industrial Piping, Inc.

MEYER, Justice.

On 14 May 1981, plaintiffs intestate, Garold E. Ballenger, was working for defendant ITT Grinnell Industrial Piping, Inc., as a maintenance mechanic. His normal duties included making small plumbing repairs. Sometime during the morning, Mr. Ballenger’s foreman instructed him to repair a leak in one of the fixtures in the men’s rest room. After lunch, Ballenger went into the rest room to undertake the repair. He was next seen by his foreman at about 1:00 p.m. coming out of the rest room. Water was gushing from a pipe in the rest room wall. Several inches of water were on the…