Hardy v. C. P. I. Sales, Inc.

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

This is a personal injury action which was tried to a jury. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered on the jury’s verdict.

The plaintiff was injured in the course of unloading sheets of plywood with the help of the defendant’s employee. After lifting the load with “mules,” they were rolling it across a temporary ramp, a metal plate, when the injury occurred.

The jury found that on the occasion in question the defendant, C.P.I. Sales, Inc., failed to secure in place the metal plate, which was negligence and a proximate cause of the occurrence in question. It also…