Lee v. Tandy & Allen Construction Co.

This is a motion by a subcontractor, third-party defendant, to dismiss the third-party complaint of the general contractor, the defendant third-party plaintiff, who has been sued in negligence by an employee of the subcontractor.

In the original complaint plaintiff alleges that while he was engaged in working for the subcontractor on the third floor of a building, the general contractor, defendant, “requested and instructed” his services in the guidance of a rope affixed to a box being hoisted to said third floor, and in the process thereof the rope was jerked, which caused the box to force…