T. Johnson Co. v. Industrial Commission

The T. Johnson Company, plaintiff in error, is a corporation engaged in the cooperage business and manufactures barrels of two types, largely used in the stock yards trade. It has a factory at 1046 West Thirty-eighth street, in Chicago, consisting of several buildings one story in height, on which there are three smoke stacks. On October 24, 1919, C. D. Boyd & Co. made a written proposition to the Johnson Company on a paper indicating in the heading that they were contractors as smoke-stack cleaners, to paint the three smoke stacks for $45, the Johnson Company to furnish the paint. The…