Dickinson v. Eastern Railroad Builders

TAYLOR, Judge.

Plaintiff Benjamin Dickinson [plaintiff] was injured while operating a front end loader. He was on the payroll of Brandy-wine Construction Co., Inc., [Brandywine] which was a sub-contractor to do grading and excavation work for defendant Eastern Railroad Builders [defendant]. Defendant in turn was under contract for the laying of railroad track. Defendant and Brandywine had entered into an arrangement whereby plaintiff would do work related to defendant’s track-laying sub-contract and defendant would pay Brandywine 135% of plaintiff’s wages for the hours plaintiff spent on…