George C. Vaughan & Sons v. Dyess

DAVIS, Justice.

W. L. Dyess, plaintiff-appellee, sued George C. Vaughan & Sons, a corporation, appellant-defendant, for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained at appellant’s place of business as a result of falling from a wooden scaffold built by appellant’s employees when a 2x4 piece of lumber used in such scaffold broke under the weight of appellee. National Automobile & Casualty Insurance Company intervened in the suit to recover the amounts expended by it under a policy of workmen’s compensation insurance issued to Houston Blow Pipe & Sheet Metal Works and insuring appellee under…