Maryland Casualty Co. of Baltimore v. Sturgis

Sometime in 1937, Henry Knickerbocker brought suit in the' Cleveland circuit court against Roy Sturgis, doing business as Roy Sturgis Lumber Company, hereinafter called appellee, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him on March 9, 1937, while in the employ of appellee, through the negligence of one L. F. Griffin, a vice-principal of appellee and Harry Knickerbocker, a servant of appellee. An answer was filed denying all the material allegations of the complaint, and specifically that the plaintiff was not in appellee’s employ, but that he was an independent contractor.…