Billings v. Ralph E. Curtis & Son, Inc.

NICHOLS, Justice.

On November 5, 1976, Arnold L. Billings sustained injuries when the truck-tractor he was operating skidded on a snow-covered hill. He seasonably petitioned for worker’s compensation, naming as Respondents both the owner of the vehicle, Leo Cote, and Cote’s lessee of that vehicle, Ralph E. Curtis & Son, Inc.

Upon appeal to this Court, we affirmed the judgment below that the owner, and not the lessee, was Billings’ employer within the meaning of the Workers’ Compensation Act. Billings v. Ralph E. Curtis & Son, Inc., Me., 400 A.2d 377, 379 (Í979).

Without waiting for that appeal…