Simon Service Incorporated v. Mitchell

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, C. J.:

The question presented by this appeal is whether the 1951 amendment to the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act (NRS 616.01 et seq.) removes from eligibility for coverage, under the act, a person who undertakes, without the employment of a “principal contractor”, to retain in his own hands the business of erecting a building, parceling out fractions of the work of construction among separate contractors.

Prior to 1951, NRS 616.085 read as follows: “Subcontractors and their employees shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed to be employees of the principal…