Lisanti v. William F. Kenny Co.

The defendant was engaged in demolishing a temporary bridge in Queens county which had been used by the Long Island Railroad Company during the period of construction by the defendant of a new bridge. In this work of demolishing the temporary bridge, the defendant, under an arrangement with the Long Island Railroad Company, in whose employ the decedent had been for sixteen years, obtained the use of a crane and the services of the decedent as engineer of the crane, and a fireman, for the purpose of operating it. This particular work in which the decedent thus became engaged began August 1,…