The Baldwin Company v. Maner

W. E. Armstrong, an employee of a subcontractor, the Southwest Electric Company, filed a personal injury suit in the Hot Spring Circuit Court against the petitioner herein, The Baldwin Company, prime contractors in the construction of a building for General Motors Corporation. The Baldwin Company filed in this court a petition for a writ of prohibition alleging that the Circuit Court is without jurisdiction because the subcontractors, Southwest Electric Company, carried Workmen’s Compensation' insurance and Armstrong has derived the benefits thereof, and that he therefore has no cause of…