The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal by the defendant, Huer, Johns, Neel, Rivers and Webb, a professional corporation and formerly a partnership, (hereafter Huer, Johns, or the architect) from two judgments entered upon jury verdicts in favor of two construction workmen for personal injuries received on the construction jobsite. The injured workmen, O.D. Pearman and Duone Hanna, filed separate suits which were consolidated for trial in the district court. Huer, Johns appeals from each judgment and the cases remain consolidated on appeal. The plaintiffs were ironworkers employed by American Construction Erection Services Company, Inc., of Wichita (ACESCO). ACESCO was hired as a subcontractor to erect the structural steel in the construction of a Dillard's department store building in Wichita's Towne East Shopping Center. ACESCO was hired by The Law Company of Wichita. The Law Company was technically a subcontractor itself under the general contractor, Pickens & Bond Construction Company of Little Rock, Arkansas. The Law Company, however, functioned in the manner of a general contractor on the project site and will be considered as such for the purposes of this appeal, and will be referred to as the general contractor. Huer, Johns, under a contract with the project owner Dillard's, was responsible for drafting the documents for the owner-builder contract, including the plans, specifications and general conditions and was also responsible for the general administration of the construction contract.
