Eventide Lutheran Home for the Aged, Missouri Synod v. Smithson Electric & General Construction, Inc.

SNELL, Justice.

This case is an appeal from apportionment of fault entered by the trial court in a negligence and breach of contract action decided in favor of the appellant, Eventide Lutheran Home for the Aged. Eventide’s suit joined a contractor, Smithson Electric and General Construction Co. (Smithson), and an engineering firm, Stevenson & Schilling (Stevenson), which were involved in performing electrical work on Eventide’s premises. Smithson did not appear in response to the action, and default was entered in July 1987. Nor is the contractor a party to this appeal. As between Eventide and…