Mallinger v. Webster City Oil Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The finding of the deputy industrial commissioner contains this language:

•“Upon the record, it is held that W. B. Mallinger was engaged in the capacity of an independent contractor on December 8, 1926, the date of his fatal injury, and was- not at that time an employee of the Webster City Oil Company, within the meaning of the Compensation Law.”

In the decision on review, filed by the industrial commissioner, who affirmed the aforesaid ruling, this language is found:

"December 8, 1926, W. B. Mallinger, husband of this claimant, lost his life at a railway…