Frank Horton & Co., Inc. v. Diggs

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff corporation seeks damages for injuries to its vice-president, Estel Gideon, then in the operation of a company truck and injured by collision with the defendant. Count I of the petition alleged that the corporation was engaged in the installation of underground communications cables by contract and that in the conduct of such affairs, vice-president Gideon was in charge of work crew operations. It was further alleged that the injuries kept Gideon from this work so that he could not recruit and field an additional crew necessary to complete installations…