Jackson Lumber Supply Company v. Deaton

Opinion of the 'Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

The Jackson Lumber & Supply Company made a contract with the Coneva Coal Company to furnish the material and build for it ten miners’ 'houses and one schoolhouse on the property of the coal company. The lumber company then made a subcontract with T. H. Deaton, by which it agreed to furnish the material and he agreed to do the work and was to be paid $180.00 for building'each of the miners’ houses and $450.00 for building the schoolhouse. Deaton built the houses and thereafter brought this suit against the lumber company, alleging that he…