Graeff v. Borough of Rockledge

WOOD, District Judge.

The plaintiif administratrix seeks to add George B. Mebus, Inc., as a party defendant to this wrongful death and survival action. George B. Mebus, in his individual capacity as Township Engineer, has already been named as a party defendant wherein he was allegedly negligent in his supervision of a sewer construction project. It is further alleged that he failed to require proper shoring of an excavation on this project which collapsed, killing the plaintiff’s decedent, Monroe Hammond, on June 27, 1960, in Rockledge, Pennsylvania.

Suit was instituted on April 7, 1961— more…