McGeorge v. Henderson

Appellants, W. P. MoGeorge and H. L. Dickinson, are partners doing business under the firm name of MoGeorge Contracting Company. In the fall of 1938 they were engaged in the construction of about six miles of new state highway north of Monticello, Arkansas, under contract with the state. Appellee, with his team, was employed on October 31, 1938, and was directed to hitch his team to a fresno machine which is something like a scoop or a slip on wheels and is guided ■by a bar called the Johnson bar, was given a helper and they were put to work on the road. At about 3 p. m. of the same date, at…