Mount v. Southern Railway Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Where a corporation contracts with another to do a work not in itself unlawful or attended with danger to others, under a contract whereby the work is to be done according to the contractor’s own methods, and not subject to the employer’s control or orders except as to the results to be obtained, the employer is not liable for the wrongful or negligent acts of such independent contractor or of his servants, and the mere fact that the employer, may have had an agent to supervise the work for the purpose of seeing that it was done in accordance with the…