James Griffith & Sons Co. v. Williams

Citations

• 23 Ohio C.C. Dec. 401
• 15 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 9
• 1912 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 173

Syllabus

<p>Principal Contractor not Liable for Death of Subcontractor’s Employe, Killed by the Negligence of Subcontractor Removing Waii of Burned Building, in Absence of Dangerous Condition of Wall.</p> <p>A principal contractor, who has been engaged to rebuild a structure destroyed by fire, having rel§t to a subcontractor the work of removing a wall left standing, is not, by reason of exception to the law of independent contractor, rendered liable for the death of an employe of such subcontractor, knocked from the wall and killed by the fall of a derrick insecurely placed by the subcontractor, there being no evidence that the wall was dangerous as a result of the fire or otherwise.</p> <p>[Syllabus approved by the court.]</p>