Rashley v. Wilcox

OPINION

FIDEL, Presiding Judge.

Defendants Dan Wilcox and Mike Eustice do business as Verde Valley Development (WD). In 1985, acting as its own general contractor and building on land that it owned, WD constructed the Mountain View Villa Apartments in Yavapai County. It hired various subcontractors and directly employed day laborers for cleanup work. Rick Florida, doing business as Florida Painting, was hired as the painting subcontractor. Plaintiff was employed by Florida as a painter’s helper. While stepping on one of several loose boards laid across second-story floor joists, plaintiff fell…