Voris v. Eikel

Leslie Lovely, the gang foreman, and Ernest Wisby, the walking foreman, each testified that he had actual knowledge of the claimant’s injury on the night that it occurred. Irrespective of the manner and duration of their employment, both Lovely and Wisby were then .employees of the Southern Stevedoring & Contracting Company, and it was responsible for their acts and omissions within the scope of their employment the same as if they had been selected without the aid of a union and their duties were to extend over years. Wisby was the man who hired Earl Porter, the claimant. He was in charge of…