Duke v. Brown Hotel Co.

REED, Judge.

The plaintiff, Loma Duke, appeals from a summary judgment which dismissed her action for personal injuries against the defendant, Brown Hotel Company. The decisive issue in the case is whether the plaintiff should be considered an employee of the defendant at the time of her injuries and therefore confined to the remedy of a claim for workmen’s compensation benefits or considered an independent contractor and thus entitled to sue her employer at common law and recover damages if the defendant was negligent and its negligence was a legal cause of the harm. The *290circuit court decided…