American Casualty Company v. Smith

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case the uncontradicted evidence discloses that a building contractor employed a general foreman to supervise the construction of a dwelling and furnished funds to him to pay expenses incurred. The foreman hired another to lay bricks and blocks as required, the materials being furnished by or on behalf of the general contractor. The general foreman paid this person weekly for work completed and accepted, at an agreed rate of $45 per thousand bricks and $0.16 per block. This person hired others to assist him, but the general foreman relied…