Cohen v. Salt River Project

OPINION

LIVERMORE, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff John Cohen was injured on September 14, 1983 when a 10' piece of metal he was carrying came into contact with a high voltage power line at an apartment construction site where he had contracted to install lathing for the plastering subcontractor. Cohen sued Salt River Project (owner of the power line), Edelman Construction (the general contractor for the project) and Star Plastering (the subcontractor that contracted with Cohen, the sole proprietor of Quality Lathing, to do the lath work), claiming each was guilty of negligence which proximately…