Umsted v. Scofield Engineering Construction Co.

The question involved upon this appeal is whether defendant, Scofield Engineering Construction Company, a corporation, was the special employer of Howard Wilson Umsted, for whose death, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the employees of said Construction Company, his father, Howard Claire Umsted, plaintiff herein, seeks to recover damages. If the Construction Company was, as it asserts, the special employer of decedent, plaintiff was without right to maintain an action for damages against it for the death of his son, but was limited to the remedy provided in the Workmen’s…