Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Industrial Accident Commission

The question presented for review herein is whether a person engaged to assist a professional golf instructor in the performance of his duties under a contract with a country club, as well as to assist such golf instructor in the conduct of a golf business located on the premises of the country club, the profits of which became the sole property of the golf instructor, was an employee of the country club and as such entitled to compensation for injuries received by him in the course of his employment, as provided by the Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act. (Stats. 1917, p. 831.)

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