Paz v. Marvin M. Black Co.

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Paul Ypolito Paz, by next friends Tony Paz and Maria Paz, sued Marvin M. Black Company and its employees Michael M. Black, Alton Pardue, Barry Atkinson, Richard Hardin, and others, in tort and contract actions for damages for injuries received by Paul Ypolito Paz when he fell from a scaffold at a construction project. Appellee Marvin M. Black Company was the general contractor on the project; Paz was an employee of the masonry subcontractor Salazar. The scaffold, which was built by the subcontractor Salazar’s employees allegedly without proper direction and…