Muller v. S. J. Groves & Sons Co.

The following opinion was filed November 11, 1930:

Owen, J.

The appellant, S. J. Groves & Sons Company, had a contract with the state of Wisconsin and Vernon county to improve 14.5 miles of state highway No. 33 by covering it with crushed rock. It sublet seven miles of said work to the defendants Wohlust, Geddes & Tischendorf, hereinafter called the subcontractors. The prosecution of the work contemplated the crushing of native rock and placing the same on the highway. The subcontractors, as a part of their equipment, had a rock crusher but no power with which to operate it. They contracted…