Carr v. Carroll Co.

VANCE, Justice.

The appellant, Austin Carr, brought suit against The Carroll Company, for damages by personal injury sustained as a result of negligence of one of Carroll’s employees. A jury found that Carroll and Carr were each 50% negligent and that Carr was a borrowed employee of Carroll at the time of the injury. Since there was proof that Carroll was a subscriber to the Workers’ Compensation Act, the trial court afforded Carroll the protection from common-law negligence provided by the Act by entering judgment that Carr take nothing. We affirm.

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