Lasater v. Hercules Powder Co.

McAllister, circuit judge.

Appellants, during the recent war, were employees of the Plercules Powder Company, which operated an ordnance plant for the federal government on a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The plant was located in the country outsidg Chattanooga, Tennessee, remote from settled communities. To guard against sabotage, and fires and damage that might be caused by vagrants, a chainlike fence was built about the entire plant, which occupied approximately 6,000 acres. The Hercules Company, appellee herein, operated buses to convey employees to the gates of the plant free of charge.…