Miller v. Cornell-Young Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

Cornell-Young Company was awarded by the State Highway Department of South Carolina a contract for the construction of sections of a highway in Bamberg and Orange-burg Counties. The contractors entered into a contract with one S. E. Eerebe, by which Ferebe agreed to furnish them with the sand they needed for their work. Eerebe employed the plaintiffs to remove a house and the top soil from the pit from which he got the sand which he delivered to Cornell-Young Company, and which was used by them in the construction of the hig-hway.…