McGowen v. Rental Tool Co.

JOHNSON, Judge.

The original plaintiff, Frederick McGowen, now deceased, filed a civil action against the defendants Rental Tool Company and D. G. Hudson Agency, Inc., a dissolved and liquidated corporation, d/b/a Tryon Gas Company, on 3 October 1989, seeking damages for personal injuries arising out of a fall from a scaffolding, which occurred on 16 October 1986.

Defendants, through their attorney, made a verbal offer of settlement totaling $63,000 to plaintiff’s attorney on 26 August 1991. Defendant Rental Tool Company was to pay $60,000, and defendant D. G. Hudson Agency, Inc. was to pay…