Holt v. Travelers Insurance

Booker T. Holt, Jr., was driving a tractor-trailer rig from Desoto to Gainesville, Georgia, hauling a load of com which had been sold by the Chokee Creek Elevator Company to Swift Mills in Gainesville when he was involved in a collision in Fulton County which caused his death. The tractor was owned by Holt’s immediate employer, Vance Davis, who was not subject to workers’ compensation, and the trailer was owned by the Chokee Creek Elevator Company ("Chokee Creek”), which was subject to the Workers’ Compensation Act.

Chokee Creek owned its own tractors and additional trailers and employed…