Parkhill Truck Co. v. Brewer

JOHNSON, Justice.

This appeal stems from the following, facts. The plaintiffs, Dave Brewer, Fred Burns and Cecil Flippo, brought an action against the Parkhill Truck Company to recover certain sums of money allegedly due them as wages earned as employees of the trucking company, but which sums the said trucking company withheld for workmen’s compensation coverage that said company allegedly paid for them.

The trucking company denied that plaintiffs were employees and alleged that they were independent contractors; that under the independent contractual arrangements between the plaintiffs and…