Reardon v. Borough of Wanaque

Brogan, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of nonsuit ordered on plaintiff’s opening statement to the jury by the Common Pleas Court of Passaic County on motion of the defendant, the Borough of Wanaque.

The question in the case is whether a municipality is liable for the affirmative negligence of workmen supplied by a federal agency known as the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), engaged in a work of public improvement in the municipality. These workmen were putting in a curb, along Mullen Avenue, a public street in the borough, at the instance of the municipality and in tiie…