Harbert Construction Corp. v. Hughes

Brady, Tom P., J.

The inception of this case was a claim filed by Odis Hughes, the appellee herein, with the Mississippi Workmen’s Compensation Commission, hereinafter called Commission, on account of an injury sustained in Rankin County, Mississippi, on August 16, 1961, while he was employed by the appellant herein, Harbert Construction Corporation, hereinafter called Harbert. Harbert was engaged in work on the Pearl River Reservoir Project in Rankin County, Mississippi. The appellee was employed as an oiler and was under a large piece of machinery known as a Euclid dirt mover, when another…