Galloway v. Memphis Drum Service

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This workers’ compensation case presents an appeal by Defendant-employer and its insurance carrier of the trial court’s award of one hundred percent (100%) permanent partial disability to Plaintiff-employee Ronnie Galloway’s right eye. The issue presented is whether, at the time of the injury, Plaintiff was an employee of Defendant Memphis Drum Service or an independent contractor.

I

In 1986, Plaintiff was hired by Memphis Drum Service as a part-time truck driver. Also around this time, Plaintiff and his brother-in-law formed, as a partnership, an overhead door business.…