Legal Opinion
John A. Persson, Jr. v. The M.W. Kellogg Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 17, 1963No. 19, Docket 28047PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
John A. Persson, Jr., the appellee, was employed as a rigger by Continental Copper & Steel Industries at its graving dock in South Portland, Maine. Persson was injured when a pipe running along a craneway, to which he had rigged a hanging scaffold on which he was standing, pulled away from its brackets and precipitated him to the dock below.
Continental had contracted with the M. W. Kellogg Company, the appellant, to furnish tools and equipment required by Continental to erect a tower, and two field superintendents whose responsibilities were to supervise the assembly and use of Kellogg’s…
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