Traders & General Ins. Co. v. Rhone

This is a compensation case. Appellee Upshur Rhone is the injured employee. He received a compensable injury while working as a steel worker. It is not questioned that he is entitled to compensation for his injury. The controlling question is whose employee was he at the time he was injured. A correct determination of that question will determine the issue as to which of the two compensation insurance companies involved owe him the money.

The material facts, as we view them, are free from conflict. On October 12, 1935, Rhone was employed as a steel worker in the erection of a steel frame…