Johnson v. Mortenson

The situation and obligations of the parties to this action—the plaintiff Johnson as general contractor, and the defendant Mortenson as subcontractor—so far as concerns the claimants as dependents of the employee, Pascoal, were determined in Pascoal v. Mortenson, 109 Conn. 39, 145 Atl. 149, wherein the award against both, and their respective insurers, jointly, was affirmed as being in conformity to § 5345 of the General Statutes. We there held (p. 44) that, under that statute, no distinction can be recognized “in liability to the claimant” as between a contractor and his immediate employer,…