Topil v. Hub Hall Co.

The plaintiff Robert Topil was injured on March 8, 1983, when he fell from a false ceiling joist while helping to install heating ducts in a house under construction in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the time of the accident, the plaintiff was a part-time employee of Arctic Air Conditioning & Heating Inc., the heating and cooling subcontractor. Arctic was joined as a plaintiff because of workers’ compensation that had been paid to the plaintiff Topil.

The property under construction was owned by the defendant Hub Hall Company, which was acting as the general contractor. The defendants Larry Shearer and…