M. H. Treadwell Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Brooklyn Edison Company, Inc., let out the construction of an addition to one of its buildings to a number of contractors, including M. H. Treadwell Company, Inc. The work was done under the supervision of engineers employed by the Edison Company. In the course thereof, Valentine Wohlfron, an employee of the Treadwell Company, while passing in dim light along a concrete slab set by another contractor, stepped into an adjacent hole made by still another contractor and was injured. The Treadwell Company was insured against liability to Wohlfron by the United States Guaranty and Fidelity…