Carter Construction Co. v. Sims

For the reasons hereinafter stated, I disagree with so much of the majority opinion as treats the $3000 per month advance as salary.

In the first place the parties conducted themselves toward one or the other more in the relationship of prime contractor and subcontractor than they did as master and servant.1 The record shows that appellee had some two to three hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment with offices in Farmersville, Louisiana and Warren, Arkansas. At the time here involved, appellee had other jobs of his own going at the same time that he was also supervising.2 The proof shows…