Lee Moor Contracting Co. v. Blanton

Elizabeth L. Blanton brought this action as administratrix for damages to her husband’s estate, charging defendants Lee Moor Contracting Company and Lee Kiser with having caused his death through their negligent operation of a motor-truck. The Lee Moor Contracting Company, to which we shall hereafter refer as the company, was a general contractor for certain road construction, on United States Highway No. 89, between Ashfork and Prescott, and had hired from Lee Kiser a motor-truck with which to haul gravel from a gravel pit to what is designated as the “hot” plant, located on the road about…