Collum v. Pope & Talbot, Inc.

WOOD (Fred B.), J.

Plaintiffs, journeymen carpenters working on a construction job, were injured when a ceiling joist broke under their weight. They brought this action for damages against Leo G. Cheim, the lumber dealer from whom their employer W. B. Kalsched, the general contractor, bought the joist, and against Pope and Talbot, Inc., the lumber mill operator who processed the joist and sold it to Cheim.

The principal question upon this appeal is whether or not the trial court committed error when it ordered a nonsuit in respect to those counts of the complaint which were predicated upon an…