Eastern Construction Company v. Back

Opinion of the Court by

Cread, Commissioner

Reversing.

Henry Back instituted a suit against Bill Turner, Clyde Bowling, Murf Howard, and Eastern Construction Company in the Knott circuit court, alleging in his petition that the defendants owed him $292.80 for 73% hours’ work for them oil a highway which they were constructing in Knott county.-

The first paragraph of the joint and separate answer of Bowling, Howard,, and Eastern Construction Company is a traverse of the allegations of the petition, but in the second paragraph they affirmatively allege that they never employed plaintiff or had him…