Frankfort Elevator Coal Co. v. Prewett

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Affirming.

The appellant, Frankfort Elevator Coal Company, is engaged in the coal business in Frankfort, Kentucky, and owns one or more power boats which it uses in towing barges on the Kentucky and other rivers. At such times as its tow boats are not being used in its own business it contracts to tow for other people. On September 9, 1923, it contracted with appellee, George Prewett, to tow for him from the Howard ship yards, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to his ferry on the Kentucky river between Harrodsburg and Lexington a steel barge that had been…