Dees v. L. F. Largess Co.

The plaintiffs, Earnest and Elfrieda Dees, instituted suit against the individual and corporate defendants seeking damages for injuries Dees sustained when a crane which he was working about came in contact with a power transmission line carrying 24,000 volts of electricity.

Early in 1958, the defendant L. F. Largess Company, as general contractor, entered into a contract with the defendant Detroit Coil Company for the construction of an addition to existing facilities of Detroit Coil on Hilton road in the city of Fern-dale. The Largess Company thereupon contracted with the defendant Arrow…