Butler v. Blonigen Construction Inc.

Relators, Blonigen Construction, Inc., and Verdi B. Blonigen, seek review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board1 determining that John A. Butler was their employee at the time of a work-related accident and awarding Butler, a carpenter, compensation against them and Hagen Builders Co. Inc.2 Relators challenge the *247board’s findings that Butler was an employee and that both of them were his employers. We affirm.

Butler, a journeyman carpenter, had worked since 1960 as a general contractor, a carpentry subcontractor, or an employee. He was laid off in June 1973. Verdi Bloni-gen, also a…