Pumphrey v. JA Jones Construction Company

Tbe important question in this ease is whether the defendants, who were doing certain work in connection with the building of a lock in the Mississippi River under contracts with the United States Government, are entitled to the same immunity from suit as the Government itself. Plaintiffs’ petition alleged that in the course of the work the defendants negligently used high explosives in blasting, thereby damaging plaintiffs’ property located not far from the site of the construction being carried on. The question of negligence, however, has disappeared from the case, under the doctrine laid…