Legal Opinion
Richard J. Lakin and Brenda Lakin v. Daniel Marr & Son Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 9, 1984No. 83-1498PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
On August 20, 1979, Richard Lakin was working helping to build a nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. He was injured around 2:00 p.m. by a wood plank approximately ten inches wide, two inches thick, and several feet long that fell and struck the top of his hard hat. He claimed that at the time it hit him a workman for Daniel Marr & Son Co. was working roughly fifty-four feet above him tossing planks of similar size near an uncovered two-and-a-half-inch wide crack in the platform. A jury found Marr liable and awarded Richard Lakin $230,000 for his injury and…
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