JEFFERSON v. T. L. JAMES & COMPANY

No. 27474.

420 F.2d 322 (1969)

Barbaras JEFFERSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. T. L. JAMES & COMPANY, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 9, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Scott Welch, III, Roger C. Landrum, Jackson, Miss., for appellant-defendant; Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., of counsel.

Paul G. Swartzfager, John L. Jeffries, Laurel, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, JONES and CARSWELL, Circuit Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge:

T. L. James & Company, Inc., hereafter called James, was engaged in the construction of an interstate highway in Clarke County, Mississippi. Employed by it and engaged in the construction work was Barbaras Jefferson. He and other employees were to be at the construction site and ready to work at six o'clock in the morning. About a mile from the place where the work was being done and on a portion of the highway under construction and under...

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