State Ex Rel. Bettman v. Christen

In this case individual awards were made by the Industrial Commission to William Myers and Thomas Mitchell, for injuries occasioned by their falling from a scaffold while painting. It is conceded that the injuries were received during the course of employment, and the amounts of the awards are not in controversy. In the suits later instituted against the non-complying employer and later consolidated the trial court rendered judgment for the defendant, Alfred Christen, upon the ground that he was not, at the time of the injury complained of, an employer within the meaning of the Workmen’s…