Lommen v. Adolphson & Peterson Construction Co.

Rogosheske, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court denying defendant’s alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding a jury verdict or a new trial.

On January 13, 1964, plaintiff suffered serious injuries as the result of a fall from a scaffold while installing a folding partition during the construction of the Minnetonka West Junior High School gymnasium. The folding partition was designed to operate upon a track supported by a large, steel, I-shaped, double bar joist which extended across the full 80-foot width of the ceiling of the gymnasium approximately 20 feet above the…