Flatiron Paving Co. of Boulder v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance Co.

Opinion by

JUDGE VAN CISE. *

Defendant, Great Southwest Fire Insur-anee Company (Southwest), appeals a summary judgment entered against it and in favor of plaintiff, Flatiron Paving Co. of Boulder (Flatiron). We affirm.

In early 1983, Flatiron hired Whitlock House Moving, Inc., (Whitlock) to move a state historical monument as part of Flatiron’s highway paving contract with the State. In April, during the final stages of excavating under the base of the monument, it collapsed and had to be rebuilt by Flatiron at a cost of approximately $26,000. At the time of the collapse, Whitlock was the…