Standard Accident Ins. v. National Fire Proofing Co.

The parties in the trial court held the same relative positions as they do here. Homer E. Berchtold, an employee of the defendant National Fire Proofing Company, on June 1, 1927, while engaged in work for his employer on the ground floor of the Terminal Tower building, was struck on his head, which projected outside the line of the exterior wall and killed by a falling brick which had been disengaged from a freshly laid exterior wall at the eleventh floor. The workman who kicked the brick loose from the wall at the eleventh floor was in the employ of the general contractor, John Gill & Sons,…