American Steel & Wire Co. v. Sieraski

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

On the verdict of a jury in the District Court, Benjamin Sieraski, an employee of The Thornton Sheet Metal Company, was awarded judgment for damages for personal injuries received by him while working on premises of appellant, The American Steel & Wire Company. Appellant urges that, because at the time of the accident appellee was employed by an independent contractor, the injured workman assumed the risk in the circumstances of *710the case and that the record reveals no breach of legal duty on the part of appellant.

By contract, appellee’s employer had undertaken the…