Heller Bros. Packing Co. v. Lewis

CHAPMAN, J.:

This is a compensation case. The fácts are substantially viz: Heller Brothers Packing Company is a corporation located at Clearwater, Florida, and was engaged in the business of picking citrus fruit from its various groves and hauling the fruit by trucks to canning plants. Kendricks and Roberts were truck drivers employed to drive the trucks when filled with fruit by the fruit pickers. Kendricks and Roberts were paid by the hour. The picking of fruit and the transportation thereof from the groves to the canning plants were simultaneous- operations. The pay of the trück drivers…