Owens v. Turner

This is a workmen’s compensation case where two questions are presented:(1) Was the injured plaintiff below an employee rather than an independent contractor?(2) Did the employer use the services of not less than five persons for pay?

The trial judge answered both of these questions in the affirmative, and held that plaintiff’s permanent partial disability was caused by injuries, which arose out of and in the course of his employment, of fifteen percent to the body as a whole.

That these injuries consisted of a compression fracture of lumbar vertebra that produces pain and restriction of the…