Templeton v. Nipper

The plaintiffs in error, under appointment of the County Court of Rhea County, were commissioners authorized to let the contract for and superintend the construction of a bridge in that *549county. In pursuance of the power so conferred they contracted for the entire work with the Groton Bridge Company, which company sublet the construction of the superstructure to one Thompson* who afterwards sublet it to another party. The \defendant in error, an employee of this second subcontractor, did work upon it, for which he has not been paid. The bridge has been finished and the agreed consideration for…