Diggs v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

These actions against the railroad were brought by two employees of the Cayuga Foundation Corporation, a general contractor engaged by the state to construct a portion of the Connecticut Turnpike adjacent to the Burr Boad Bridge, which crosses over the main line of the railroad in Bridgeport. The actions arise out of an accident which occurred on November 6, 1957, while the named plaintiffs, in the course of their employment by Cayuga to pave the turnpike at or near its approach to the bridge, were holding, guiding or steadying a piece of road-building equipment known as a “fine-grader,”…