Bamber v. City of Norfolk

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

The questions presented by the assignments of error will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

1. Is the city of Norfolk liable in the instant case as “principal contractor” under section 20 (a) of the workmen’s compensation law, as the act stood when the accident and death involved occurred?

The question must be answered in the negative.

Said section 20 (a) has not been amended and it stood at the time of the accident and death involved in the instant case, and still stands, as originally…