Baczmaga v. Reynolds

The main action herein arises out of a claim that Stanley Baczmaga died of injuries sustained when struck by a certain portable toilet.

Plaintiff’s intestate claims that Johnny-On-The-Spot, defendant and third-party plaintiff, was negligent in supplying improper straps and rigging, the failure of which permitted the unit to fall on decedent, who died on August 21, 1961.

Allegedly the unit was being transported by a crane owned and operated by Merritt, Chapman and Scott, third-party defendant, and that following the accident agents of Merritt, Chapman and Scott took possession of what remained…