La Rocca v. Farrington

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when a link of a chain on a tractor crane broke while he stood in a truck aiding his coemployees, who were operating the tractor crane on a pier, to place scrap iron in the truck. The crane had been leased by Turner Dock Transfer Co., Inc., one of the defendants, to the Farringtons, the other defendants, who, within two days from the date they received it, leased it to plaintiff’s employer and supplied the crew to operate it, and several months later leased it to plaintiff’s employer, without a crew.

The…