Dodge v. Morey

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Demarest, J.), entered May 5, 1995 in St. Lawrence County, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

In the spring of 1992, plaintiff hired defendant to perform logging operations on certain of his property located in the Town of Colton, St. Lawrence County, and defendant, in turn, hired Everette Cowles and his two sons, Robert Cowles and Larry Cowles, to undertake the actual cutting and removal of trees. Plaintiff apparently assisted in this endeavor from time to time, and on August 20, 1992, while cutting down a…