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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 936
    LIBBEY GLASS CO. v. GRONAN
    No. 20046.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. Aug. 5, 1926;
    4 Abs. 541.
    829. NEGLIGENCE — Can an employee of an independent contractor when injured, collect from state insurance fund and also maintain action against owner of building upon ground that the owner knew of the defect causing the injury and failed to warn him?
    Attorneys — Marshall, Melhorn, Marlar & Martin for Glass Co.; C. A. Irwin for Gronan; all of Toledo.
   The Glass Company contends in the Supreme Court, that an employee of an independent contractor injured while repairing roof, and who recovers from state insurance fund, has no right of action against it, on the ground that it knew of the defect and failed to give proper warning of same.