Sargent v. Clements

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lewis County affirming an award of the Workmen's Compensation Commission. Joseph S. Sargent was doing the "dynamite work" for three separate contractors who were engaged in the construction of twelve miles of State Highway No. 61 in Lewis County. Each contractor was in charge of and doing the construction work on a separate section of the road. Sargent contracted separately with the contractors to do all the "dynamite work" required, by each, in the course of the construction work. He was killed, July 15, 1932, by an explosion of…