Brown v. Jerry's Welding & Construction Co.

DONALDSON, Chief Justice.

David Brown, plaintiff-respondent, was injured on August 2, 1974, while employed by Agricultural Products Corporation, Inc. (APC). On that date, appellants Douglas Crane and Lewis Larsen, who were on the payroll of the appellant Jerry’s Welding, were lowering an air compressor out of a window in APC’s ball mill plant. By reason of causation not germane to this appeal, the compressor fell and struck Brown rendering him a paraplegic.

As a result of this accident, two lawsuits were filed. The first was subject to appeal before this Court in Scott v. Agricultural Products…