Higgins v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.

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• concluding two employers engaged on same project when they had longstanding, continuous, and close commercial relationship installing, maintaining, and modifying one of the two employer’s telephone switching equipment
• Northwestern Bell and Western Electric were engaged on the same project where both companies installed, maintained and modified the same equipment over a longstanding, close commercial relationship
• common enterprise found to exist between employees who “worked in close proximity to each other performing generally the same tasks while working on the same equipment in the same physical areas” Id. at 198-94

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).