Beal v. Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.

The named plaintiff, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, while employed as a night guard at the Groton plant of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, hereinafter referred to as Electric Boat, sustained personal injuries by falling into an open trench which had been dug for water and sewer pipes serving a new building then being constructed by the defendant as contractor. The plaintiff received workmen’s compensation, and the insurer intervened as a party plaintiff. The trench was a long one, about four and a half feet deep and about three feet wide at the bottom…