Cooper v. Thomas

Paul Cooper, Larry Williams, and Larry Brand, by permission of this Court, appeal from interlocutory orders entered in a personal injury action denying their respective motions for summary judgment and reconsideration based on the statute of limitations. We affirm.

On September 28, 1979, while working as a laborer, at the Jim Dandy Company in Birmingham, Alabama, R.C. Thomas, Jr., then eighteen years old, was caused to slip on a wet and slippery floor within the Jim Dandy plant and fall into an unguarded Surg Hopper Machine. As a result of this fall, Thomas suffered permanent injury to his…