Cassamasse v. J.G. Lamotte & Son, Inc.

Angelo J. Cassamasse (Cassamasse) was killed on May 8, 1973, when he was struck on the head by a steel pipe that employees of the defendant J.G. Lamotte & Son, Inc. (Lamotte), were lowering into the basement of a *316building on a construction site at Holyoke Community College. Lamotte was the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning subcontractor on the project, and Cassamasse was acting in the course of his employment by Lamotte when the accident occurred. The defendant Daniel O’Connell’s Sons, Inc. (O’Connell), was the general contractor.

The two cases were tried together and are before us on…