Smart v. Embry

This is an appeal in error by petitioner, Joe Smart, from a judgment of the Chancery Court dismissing his petition to recover compensation and medical benefits, under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, for an injury to his left hand suffered by accident while he was cutting plywood with a saw on the project where he was at work.

Petitioner’s theory was that the defendant S. & S. Construction Company was the principal contractor building a house in Shelby County, and defendant American Surety Company was its Workmen’s Compensation insurer; that defendant James Embry was its sub-contractor on the…