Culbertson v. Kieckhefer Container Co.

Stevens, J.(1) The workmen’s compensation act gives the plaintiff no right to compensation from the defendant. The right to claim compensation under this act. is confined to those cases where the relationship of employer and employee exists. That relationship is created only in those cases where the one claiming to be an employee is in the service of another under a contract, either express or implied. Unless there is such relationship, the injured person is left to the remedies given him by the common law before the enactment of the workmen’s compensation act.

The plaintiff was not an…