Hammontree v. Cobb Const. Co.

Appellee is engaged in general road construction work and on the occasion in question was laying a concrete public highway, twenty feet wide, from the Alabama line westward towards the city of Meridian. The principal machine used in this work is a large concrete mixer into which is fed, every minute and a quarter, a batch of material consisting of seven sacks of concrete, one thousand four hundred pounds of sand, and two thousand seventy pounds of gravel. This mixer is placed in the middle of the twenty foot space to he paved, and, as the mixer deposits the mixed paving material upon the…