United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Hall

GRAY, Justice.

This is a compensation case wherein appellant, the insurance carrier for Cameron Roofing Company, has appealed from a judgment (rendered upon a jury’s verdict) awarding appellee damages for injuries sustained by him when a scaffold, on which he was standing while painting a wall, collapsed and caused him to fall.

Appellant answered appellee’s petition by general denial and further that appellee was an employee of one M. H. Nesbitt, an independent contractor. By supplemental petition, appellee alleged that Cameron, the general contractor, sublet all or a portion of the work with…