Norton v. Standard Oil Co.

W. W. Norton, the appellant, an experienced carpenter, was employed by Chester Gossin, agent of the ap-pellee, the Standard Oil Company, to construct a garage and warehouse in Baldwyn, Miss. It can be stated that Gossin was the alter ego of the appellee, the Standard Oil Company, as to the events of this case. On October 8, 1935, Norton was engaged as a carpenter in that work. Bartlett, a defendant in the court below and operator of his own motortruck, on the afternoon of that day, delivered, on the order of appellee’s agent, a load of lumber, about one thousand feet of cypress, to be used in…