Magee v. Jefferson Rental

BOUTALL, Judge.

Defendant-appellant Desa Industries appeals a judgment against it in the sum of $309,174.26, in favor of plaintiff-appellee Edward Magee, a 42 year old manual laborer. For the reasons that follow we vacate the December 1,1981 judgment from which Desa appeals, and furthermore we reinstate a previous judgment of January 13,1981 as the final judgment in this case.

Plaintiff-appellee, Edward Magee was seriously injured when on January 17, 1974 the blade of a concrete saw which he was operating shattered and a piece struck him in the forehead, penetrating the right frontal lobe of…