Bulman v. Sanitary Farm Dairies

Defendant Sanitary Farm Dairies of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, buys milk from farms for processing. It maintains six milk routes in the surrounding territory over which six regular haulers or drivers make daily trips collecting milk from the farmers along the routes. Each owns his own truck, starts from his own home in the morning and upon completion of his round delivers to the plant in Cedar Rapids the milk he has gathered and returns the truck to his home to be used for the next day’s trip.

The regular route man or hauler is paid by defendant company “so much a hundred” for the milk he brings in,…