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Portrait of John Marshall Harlan II John Marshall Harlan II Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative…

As I read that court's opinion, it held that under South Carolina law the construction of facilities needed to transmit electric power was necessarily a part of the business of furnishing power, whether such construction was performed by the respondent itself or let out to others, and that in either case respondent would be liable to petitioner for compensation as his statutory employer.
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