Elston v. WAGNER

(Pro Tempore)

This is an appeal by defendants from a judgment of the circuit court which awarded plaintiff $45,626.00 damages on account of personal injury allegedly sustained by plaintiff in an accident occasioned by the defective construction of an apparatus manufactured by defendants, known as a “mixermobile”, designed to mix concrete. The machine consisted in part of a high tower built of steel tubing, the concrete being mixed at the bottom of the tower and hoisted up to the top by a mechanical lift, where the concrete is dumped into a chute. At the top of the tower is located a cage where…