CCT Equipment Co. v. Hertz Corporation

Defendants make a general contention which underlies all of their assignments of error. They insist that neither the State Highway Commission nor the contractor had power and authority under conditions disclosed by this record to supervise and control the use of Highway 26 by the traveling public so as to give to the contractor’s equipment and machinery a dominant status, and that in the use of the highway, as between the contractor and the traveling public, the ordinary rules of the road obtained as if no construction work affecting the highway was being done. It is therefore essential that…