Pratt v. Reed & Brown Hauling Company

CROSS, Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the circuit court reversing a final award of workmen’s compensation benefits in the amount of $5,145.00 made by the Industrial Commission in favor of claimant-appellant E. O. Pratt, and against respondent Reed & Brown Hauling Company as his employer.

Appellant’s claim was originally filed against three corporations named as employers: Eby Construction Company, Bowen Construction Company and Reed & Brown Hauling Company. Appellant undertook to hold the Eby Company and the Bowen Company liable as employers on the theory that he was their…