Hendricks v. Dahlgren

The defendant, Dahlgren Construction Company, was the prime contractor respecting the construction of a state highway bridge in Mount Vernon, Washington. Plaintiff, L. A. Hendricks, owned a Bucyrus-Erie 22-B three-quarter yard shovel, which Dahlgren Construction Company wished to rent for use on the construction project. During the negotiations for the rental of the shovel, it became apparent that, in order to make the machine useful to defendant construction company, it would be necessary to have an extension added to the boom of the shovel and to acquire a jib for attachment to the end of…