Gordon v. Contractors Transport Corp.

On July 24, 1967, the appellants, Alvin E. Gordon and James Harkless, were employed by the Ledford Construction Company on a job in Bethesda, Maryland. The Ledford Company had been hired by the Potomac Electric Power Company to install electrical lines to connect with a new 17-story apartment building, the Willoughby. That project involved the digging of a ditch and the laying of an electrical conduit, lengths of round hollow pipes for electric cables. The conduit led to a new concrete vault or manhole. On July 24, the appellants were working in the manhole removing wooden flaring which had…