Farmer v. Employers Insurance of Wausau

This is a workers’ compensation case in which claimant was a truck driver injured in a highway collision while in the course of his employment. He was driving a tractor trailer in which he was transporting goods in interstate commerce. Without doubt he was the employee of someone.

*612The issue here is to determine which of three concerns were his employer or employers. The truck which he was driving was owned by Dan Martin who leased considerable trucking equipment (tractors and trailers) to Hames Trucking, Inc. The lease agreement as to the tractor in question which claimant was driving was…