Turner Construction Company v. John T. Houlihan

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellee, John Houlihan, a citizen of Rhode Island, was employed by W. J. Halloran Co. as an “oiler” and “apprentice engineer” to work on a portable crane under the direct supervision of the crane operator. On or about Friday, March 20, 1953, the defendant-appellant, Turner Construction Company, a New York corporation, arranged with Houlihan’s employer for the use of a crane to hoist ready-mixed cement from the ground to the roof of a building which, as the general contractor, it was constructing for the St. Regis Paper Company in East Providence, Rhode…