Halcy R. Maynard and Muriel Maynard v. General Electric Company, a Corporation

BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

In 1967, McNally Pittsburgh Manufacturing Company purchased from defendant below, General Electric Company, a “motor control center” for use in connection with the operation of a coal mine. The parties arranged with the O. K. Trucking Company to ship the motor control center from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Hamilton, Virginia, via O. K.’s Huntington, West Virginia, terminal.

On February 1, 1968, plaintiff below, Haley Maynard (hereafter appellant or Maynard), who was then employed by the O. K. Trucking Company at its Huntington, West Virginia, terminal, was assisting in…