Wilkie v. West Const. Co. of Tennessee, Inc.

Appellee, the West Construction Company, a foreign corporation, was employed by the State Highway Commission to construct a paved east and west highway between the towns of Vardaman and Greysport. Howard Wilkie, one of its employes, on the 19th of November, 1941, was struck and killed by a lumber truck belonging to W.L. Plunk, and driven by Howard Talant. The appellants, Wilkie's wife and daughter, brought a foreign attachment in chancery against the West Company, its superintendent and other employes, to recover damages for his death. A trial was had on bill, answers and proofs, resulting in…