Sherman White & Co. v. Long

These two suits arise out of the same- accident and present questions of law and fact which can be dealt with in one opinion of the Court. The trial judge sustained separate demurrers to each of the plaintiffs’ declarations.

A. B. Long Construction Company, and A. B. Long, Sr., and A. B. Long, Jr., a partnership, held a contract with the State of Tennessee to relocate and/or rebuild a section of State highway between LaFollette, Tennessee, and the Kentucky State line. In the course of performing its contractual obligations its employees set off a dynamite blast on or near said highway on March…