Stevens v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Appellant here, plaintiff below, was an employee of the Shaw Company, which, as a subcontractor of defendant, was laying underground plumbing sewerage lines in a building then in the foundation stage of its construction. After suing his employer’s insurance carrier and obtaining a judgment for workmen’s compensation, he brought this third party action, alleging that while engaged in ant! about the work of his employer, the negligence1 of the defendant caused him to suffer a fall and to sustain damages as a result thereof.

Denying plaintiff’s claims of injury and…