Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad v. Jones

W. G. Shaner & Sons were contractors and were working for the Belt Line Company on the morning of the accident, August 21, 1943, and had on other occasions done work for it. The Belt Line is a railroad • operating in the Norfolk area and furnishes convenient means of transfer from one *539through line of railroad to another and from the dock on Elizabeth river to them.

Shaner had been in business relations with the Belt Line for some time prior to the accident. He had made a contract for construction work in three different yards of the defendant, all of which contracts had been completed prior to…