Gallagher Transfer & Storage Co. v. Public Service Co.

AN action for damages by defendant in error against plaintiff in error, resulting from the latter's negligence, as it is alleged, and involving responsibility of contractors, general and special.

A packing house concern, doing business in Denver, found it expedient in the course of its affairs to construct a sewage disposal plant. In connection therewith it became necessary to excavate a ditch or trench, some two hundred feet in length and ten or twelve feet in depth. It indicated to others the location, length and depth of the ditch or trench; thereafter had no part in its construction, and…