Jones v. Vappi & Co.

Kass J.

Donald Jones and Anthony Tokowicz were hurt when a steel beam on which they were sitting gave way during construction of a film processing plant for the Polaroid *78Corporation. For purposes of the appeal, which involves interpretation of an indemnity clause, the active players are Vappi & Company, Inc. (“Vappi”), the general contractor, and General Iron & Steel Works, Inc. (“General Iron”), a subcontractor to Vappi responsible for fabricating and erecting structural steel and steel decking. Jones and Tokowicz were employees of V & V Erectors, Inc. (“V&V”), to which General Iron had let a…