Mitchell v. East Nantmeal Township

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Claimant, Chester Mitchell, had been employed by J. D. Prosser, a paving contractor for many years. By long experience he had become an expert operator of graders, power rollers and other road building equipment. Prosser on June 12, 1954, as he had done on a number of prior occasions, supplied East Nantmeal Township with a road roller on a flat rate rental basis'. The agreed rental included the services of claimant as operator of the equipment. On the above date after rolling a small patched section of a road, Mitchell, at the direction of the township road supervisor,…