Caldwell v. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.

Defendants, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, et al., appeal as of right from judgments entered on jury verdicts in favor of Ronald Caldwell, hereinafter plaintiff, against defendants in the sum of $160,000 and the derivative claim of his wife, Paula Caldwell, in the sum of $3,000 for loss of consortium against defendants.

On May 6, 1977, while an employee of defendant Bechtel Corporation, plaintiff was seriously injured when, while helping to steady a crate, it fell from a forklift truck onto him. It was plaintiffs theory that the crate fell because the forks on the forklift truck were "homemade…