Sharp v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Kramer,

This is an action in trespass commenced by Daniel Sharp and his wife against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its Secretary of Transportation. Daniel Sharp was employed as a painter by thé firm of Solomon & Teslovich, which firm was awarded the general contract for the. painting of . bridges on a Federal-State project .on Interstate Highway 79.. Dne to an alleged negligence in the positioning of- the scaffold upon which Sharp was working and an alleged failure to properly control traffic, Sharp was severely injured when the scaffold was stricken by a tractor-trailer…