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KENNY v. ALEXSON EQUIPMENT CO.

495 Pa. 107 (1981)

432 A.2d 974

Gerard M. KENNY and Kathleen Kenny, v. ALEXSON EQUIPMENT COMPANY, Thomas Lindstrom and Company, Clyde Iron Works, Incorporated, Microdot Co., Incorporated, AMCA International Corporation, American Tubular Elevator Company and International Brotherhood of Operating Engineers, Local 542, and Wm. M. Anderson Co., Inc. and Piracci Construction Co., and Dominic A. Piracci, Sr., Appellants. Appeal of Dominic A. PIRACCI, Sr. Edmund KOLLHOFF and Helen Kollhoff, v. ALEXSON EQUIPMENT COMPANY, Thomas Lindstrom and Company, Clyde Iron Works, Incorporated, Microdot Co., Incorporated, AMCA International Corporation, American Tubular Elevator Company and International Brotherhood of Operating Engineers, Local 542, and Wm. M. Anderson Co., Inc. and Piracci Construction Co., and Dominic A. Piracci, Sr., Appellants. Appeal of Dominic A. PIRACCI, Sr.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman J. Obert, Jerrold P. Anders, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Henry B. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Philadelphia, for Gerard M. Kenny & Kathleen Kenny, and Edmund Kollhoff and Helen Kollhoff.

Joseph P. Green, Philadelphia, for Alexson Equip. Co.

Michael P. O'Connor, Anthony J. Damiano, Philadelphia, for Thos. Lindstrom & Co.

Elizabeth M. Iannelli, Philadelphia, for Clyde Iron Works, Microdot Co. and AMCA Int'l. Corp.

Edward J. Marcantonio, Philadelphia, for Amer. Tubular Elevator Co.

Morton F. Daller, Philadelphia, for Int'l. Brotherhood of Operating Engineers, Local 542.

Adrian R. King, Philadelphia, for Wm. M. Anderson Co.

Austin Hogan, Philadelphia, for Piracci Constr. Co.

OPINION

NIX, Justice.

Gerard M. Kenny (Kenny) and his wife, Kathleen Kenny, instituted suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County as a result of injuries sustained by Kenny on November 8, 1973 while riding on a construction elevator powered from ground level by a hoist. The elevator dropped from a high elevation at a construction site in Philadelphia.

Edmund Kollhoff (Kollhoff) and his wife...

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