LA ROCCA v. FARRINGTON


276 A.D. 126 (1949)

John La Rocca, Appellant, v. Stephen J. Farrington et al., Doing Business as S. J. Farrington Iron Works, Respondents-Appellants, and Turner Dock Transfer Co., Inc., Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

December 5, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Stout, Louis Rothbard and Hyman Goldberg for appellant.

Patrick E. Gibbons and Patrick J. McCann for respondents-appellants.

William L. Shumate and Samuel E. Swiggett for respondent.

JOHNSTON, Acting P. J., ADEL and SNEED, JJ., concur; WENZEL, J., concurs in the result.


MacCRATE, J.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when a link of a chain on a tractor crane broke while he stood in a truck aiding his coemployees, who were operating the tractor crane on a pier, to place scrap iron in the truck. The crane had been leased by Turner Dock Transfer Co., Inc., one of the defendants, to the Farringtons, the other defendants, who, within...

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