Crouch v. Murphy

The question involved in this lawsuit is whether one William Bastyr had five or six employees during thirty-eight calendar weeks of the year 1939, as contemplated by the Unemployment Compensation Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 48, par. 217 et seq.) Bastyr was engaged in the trucking business as the Marland Cartage Company. He died early in 1940 and appellant, Arthur B. Crouch, his son-in-law, took over the trucks, he having a lien on them for money advanced, and operated them. If Bastyr had but five employees during the period referred to in 1939, then no liability exists in this case. If…