These consolidated actions to recover damages for wrongful death, conscious pain and suffering, and personal injuries arose out of the death of one John Rooney in a sewer tunnel. On October 2, 1957, Rooney, an engineer employed by the Bureau of Sewage Disposal of the Department of Public Works of the City of New York, descended into a sewer in Queens County to ascertain the source of certain...
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