Legal Opinion

Butler Manufacturing Co. v. Hughes

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided May 18, 1987No. 86-243Published

1Opinion of the Court

729 S.W.2d 142 (1987)

292 Ark. 198

BUTLER MANUFACTURING CO., Appellant,

v.

Robert M. HUGHES & Patsy Hughes, his wife, Appellees.

No. 86-243.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 18, 1987.

James M. Simpson, H. Charles Gschwend, Jr., Little Rock, for appellant.

Spencer, Spencer, Depper & Guthrie, El Dorado, for appellees.

HOLT, Chief Justice.

The appellee, Robert M. Hughes, a construction worker, was shocked while using a piece of equipment called a "roof runner" and fell from the roof where he was working, receiving numerous injuries. Hughes and his wife sued the appellant, Butler Manufacturing Co., (Butler)…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Jim Halsey Co., Inc. v. BonarSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1985
  2. W. M. Bashlin Co. v. SmithSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1982
  3. Butler Manufacturing Co. v. HughesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1987
  4. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. YarbroughSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1984
  5. Welter v. CurrySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1976

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