Jaggers v. Free State Tool Corp.

O.E. PRICE, Judge Pro Tem.

Defendant Free State Tool Corporation (FST) appeals a judgment finding it had breached its duty to plaintiff Jaggers, and assessing it sixty percent fault in causing injuries plaintiff sustained when she fell off FST’s roof which she and her husband were repairing.

Finding the trial court erred as a matter of law in determining that FST owed a duty to protect the plaintiff from the particular risk of harm here involved, we reverse.

FACTS

In early November 1985, plaintiff’s husband Grady Jaggers was awarded a contract to replace the roof on FST’s Haynes-ville building.…