Spaulding v. Department of Employment Security

The claimant contracted with a building contractor for the construction of a log home. The contractor, with the assistance of the claimant, as an unpaid laborer, erected the log home between May and September of 1978.

On March 12, 1979, the claimant began work as a carpenter for the same contractor. Shortly thereafter a problem devel oped with the claimant’s recently constructed home. One of the logs was out of plumb, causing the roof to sag. During the spring and summer of 1979, the claimant repeatedly asked the contractor to come look at the house so that he could begin to correct the…