T. J. Mansfield Const. Co. v. Gorsline

The opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals in this case is to be found in 278 S. W. 485. This is a suit by the defendants in error against plaintiffs in error as a copartnership and as individuals, for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted on Mrs. Gorsline by the negligence of the plaintiffs in error, resulting upon the trial in the district court in a judgment for $1,500 as damages inflicted upon her. The petition charged that the plaintiffs in error had contracted as independent contractors with the county of Wichita to build ten cement culverts on a public road in that county,…