Patrick v. Pulte-Strang, Inc.

This is an appeal from a judgment for defendants, entered by the trial judge notwithstanding verdicts of the jury in favor of plaintiffs, á construction worker and his wife, for $100,000 and $3,000 respectively.

Plaintiff Moses Patrick was a laborer in the employ of Malone Brothers, a cement subcontractor on a construction job at the Wylie Groves Junior High School, under construction in Birmingham, Michigan. Defendant Pulte-Strang, Inc., was the general contractor; its employee, defendant Guy W. Smith, was engaged as a crane operator in the course of the school’s construction.

On August 3,…