Schaller v. Industtrial Accident Commission

This proceeding in certiorari was instituted by petitioner Jack Schaller to secure the annulment of an award made against him by the Industrial Accident Com mission for the death of Sue Alric Marrion, an aerialist who was fatally injured on May 7, 1936, during the performance of her act in a Canadian showhouse, when one of the ropes gave way at a height of eighty feet. The question is whether decedent was an independent contractor at the time of the accident, or whether she was an employee of petitioner.

For a number of years, so the record shows, petitioner, operating under the name of Jack…