Johnson v. Vincennes Bridge Co.

The defendant was engaged in constructing a bridge across Pearl River,.- and ■ through • one - -Decker,- ■ its foreman, employed plaintiff to haul steel from freight cars at Pearl River Station to where it was erecting the bridge, a distance of about half a mile. The steel had to be unloaded by plaintiff from freight cars at the station, and had to be hauled by him in a truck to the bridge where it was to be used in its construction. The contract, a verbal one, was made on May 30, 1926. Plaintiff, under the agreement was to haul all'the'steel that was then at the station, which it was figured…