Ellis & Lewis v. Warner

Ellis & Lewis, a partnership composed of A. O. Ellis and C. S. Lewis, appellants, were contractors engag-ed in tbe construction of a rock road from Lonoke, in Lonoke County, to Beebe, in White County. They employed about thirty persons with trucks for the purpose of hauling crushed rock or gravel from Lonoke to be distributed along the public highway as and where directed by appellants. These haulers furnished their own trucks, paid all expenses of their operation, worked as and when they desired, and were paid twenty cents per ton per mile haul. Among those so employed was one Jack 'Cooper,…