Smith v. Inter-County Telephone Co.

FINCH, Judge.

Plaintiff, an employee of M. Summers Company, a general contractor which had a contract to perform a job which included laying underground telephone cables for The Inter-County Telephone Company, was injured when the walls of a trench in which he was working caved in on him. Plaintiff sued Inter-County and Telecom Engineers, Inc., an engineering firm which designed the project and which had a contract with Inter-County to inspect the job and make sure that it was built in accordance with the plans and specifications.

Plaintiff’s petition alleged, among other things, that although…