Busch & Latta Painting Co. v. Woermann Construction Co.

This suit is for indemnity. The plaintiff/employed the defendant to construct a scaffold for the use of the plaintiff’s employees. The scaffold collapsed and injured two of said employees; plaintiff paid their claims for damages, sued the defendant for the amount so paid, and recovered judgment, October 11, 1922, for $7879. The defendant appealed.

The plaintiff, a corporation, engaged in the painting business, had a contract to clean and paint the ceiling of the Merchants Exchange Building, in St. Louis. The room was 210 feet long, 90 feet wide, and about 70 feet from the floor to the ceiling.…