Houlihan v. Turner Construction Co.

DAY, District Judge.

The defendant has moved for a new trial after a verdict by the jury in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $150,000. In his complaint the plaintiff alleged that on or about March 23, 1953 he was employed by the W. J. Halloran Co. as a crane oiler; that his employer directed him and one William Burns, the crane operator, to take the crane to the premises of the St. Regis Paper Company at East Providence, Rhode Island where the defendant was erecting a building; that at said premises he and Burns were directed to employ said crane in the task of raising cement from the…