Clendening v. London Assurance Co.

This is a suit for workmen’s compensation. Plaintiff alleged that R. D. Trammel was engaged in the business of building houses and contracted with Jones, Cantrell & Jones to do the brick work; that they employed plaintiff to help lay the brick, and while doing this, the scaffold on which he was working collapsed, he fell, and sustained injuries; and that Trammel was the “principal contractor” and his insurer, the defendant, was liable, under section 15 of the Act. T.C.A. sec. 50-915.

Defendant in its answer admitted that Trammel was engaged in building houses, operating under the Work*606men’s…