Richardson v. John T. Hardy & Sons, Inc.

Wolcott, J.:

This is an appeal by Kenneth L. Richardson, plaintiff, from the granting of a motion for summary judgment by Joseph T. Hardy & Sons, Inc., one of the defendants below. There are other defendants to the cause but for the purposes of this appeal the only party defendant in interest is Joseph T. Hardy & Sons, Inc. (hereafter Hardy).

The action is one for personal injuries arising in the following manner. Richardson is the employee of a plumbing contracting company and, as such, was assigned by his employer to the job of installing a sewer connection between a house then under…