Utica Mutual Insurance v. Winters

In Hiestand v. Ristau, 135 Neb. 881 (284 N. W. 756), it was held that where a life-insurance company owning a farm sent a man (carpenter) to shingle a barn on the farm, he did not become a farm laborer; and in Peterson v. Farmers State Bank, 180 Minn. 40 (230 N. W. 124), where a man (carpenter) was employed by a bank to repair buildings on its farm, it was held that he did not become a farm laborer. In Texas Employers Ins. Asso. v. Suttles (Tex. Civ. App.), 57 N. W. 2d, 624, it was held that workers constructing a fish pond on a ranch did not become ranchers.

The term, “farm laborers,” as-used…