Blackman v. Hope Engineering & Supply Co.

This is an action for compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act (Act No. 20 of 1914).

Plaintiff alleged that, while employed by the Hope Engineering Company (which was constructing a pipe line for the Dixie Gulf Gas Company), he sustained an accident arising in the course and out of his employment which had permanently totally disabled him to do work of any reasonable character, and he prayed for judgment accordingly against the Hope Engineering & Supply Company and the Dixie Gulf Gas Company, and the defendants in answer admitted that the construction of the pipe line had been as…