Crysel v. Gifford-Hill & Co.

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

R. W. Briggs & Co. had a contract with the Louisiana Highway Commission to construct a concrete highway, including grading of roadbed, clearing and grubbing the right of way, and construction of drainage structures, from Choppin to a point south of the village of Lena, in Rapides parish. This company sublet to defendant, Gifford-Hill & Company, Incorporated, what is referred to as the “dirt work,” retaining for itself the laying of the concrete after the roadbed had been put in condition for such to be done. Defendant then sublet a part of the dirt work to one Mose…