Poole v. Clagett

BAZELON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant alleges that he was “injured through the fault of another worker, hired and paid by a different employer, but engaged in the same general undertaking.”1 He seeks to make the other worker’s employer, rather than his own, answerable under the doctrine of respondeat superior. Briefly, the facts are these: Appellant was employed on a building job by McCloskey & Company, a construction firm, to fit heavy precast slabs to a steel structure. He worked on the roof. Under normal procedure, the slabs were raised by a crane and then lowered slowly into place on a signal…