Ambrosius Industries, Inc. v. Adams

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Holloway Ready Mix Company purchased from the C. Watson Company a plant for batching or mixing concrete. Pursuant to their agreement the latter sent .an employee, Oley Adams, to the job location. Adams was to assist in the assembly of the plant, but there is a sharp conflict in the contentions of the parties as to whether he was to supervise the entire operation or was merely to assemble the plant. The Holloway Company rented a crane, with an operator and an assistant called an “oiler,” from Ambrosius Industries, Inc., for the purpose of lifting various parts of the…