George Allison v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Intervenor Below

I respectfully dissent.

George Allison was injured on March 7, 1984 as he made his first round after he reported for work. He was only twelve or fourteen feet from a required key stop, riding on a bicycle, when he struck a wire stretched across an aisleway. He testified that Nottingham, the man he relieved at 11:30 p.m., would have made four rounds of the same area during the earlier shift and that if the wire had been there he would have seen it. The wire thus had to be placed there after Nottingham made his fourth round and before Allison made his first. Any guard that saw it would had to…