State Ex Rel. Great Falls National Bank v. District Court

Original application for supervisory control by a building owner, The Great Falls National Bank, named as defendant in a Scaffold Act case. Relator was sued in the district court by a workman injured in a fall from a scaffold during exterior renavation of relator’s bank building. The district court ordered two of relator’s defenses stricken from its answer. Subsequently the district court ordered summary judgment on the issue of liability in favor of the injured workman, leaving only the amount of damages to be determined by the jury at the trial. Relator seeks to have both orders set aside.

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