Olivier v. Snowden

SMITH, Justice.

William Snowden sued O. V. Olivier to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him on December 16, 1964. Snow-den was an employee of a general contractor, M. L. Osborne, who was in charge of construction work on a bank building in Jefferson County. Olivier was a subcontractor employed to do the plastering work on the building. The accident occurred while Snowden was using a scaffold owned by Olivier. Snowden’s position throughout has been that he was an invitee while occupying the Olivier scaffold, and that Olivier, on the theory that a custom of allowing mutual use-…