Trigg v. H.K. Ferguson Co.

The plaintiff-in-error, who was the plaintiff below, brought this suit to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him when his car skidded, went over an embankment and struck a nearby pole carrying a power line. The scene of the accident was within the area in which there was being constructed for the United States Government a war plant known as the Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, located near Milan, Tennessee. The defendants were H. K. Ferguson Company, a corporation, and the Oman Construction Company, a partnership, who were the general contractors engaged by the Government to build…