Brooks v. Duncan

BAKES, Justice.

This case involves a claim by the appellant Jack S. Brooks for additional workmen’s compensation benefits for medical expenses, temporary total disability and permanent partial disability. On August 4, 1967, Brooks, who was operating a loader owned by respondent Travis Duncan, was injured when the loader rolled over him, crushing his pelvis. Brooks filed a claim which Duncan denied, claiming that Brooks was not an employee of his. Brooks demanded a hearing which was held before the Industrial Accident Board (the predecessor of the Industrial Commission) on October 13, 1967, in…