Schumacher v. Schumacher

This, is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Hutchinson County affirming a decision of the industrial commissioner awarding compensation to the plaintiff for injuries sustained while operating a -tractor on his father’s farm. The award was resisted on three grounds: First, that the plaintiff had no contract of employment with his father, George M. Schumacher, and that the relation of employer and employee did not exist between them because they were engaged in a joint enterprise; second, that respondent as a farm laborer was excluded from the operation of the workmen’s…