Hargis v. Wabash Railroad Co.

HOLLY, District Judge.

The complaint in this case consists of two counts. In the first count plaintiff alleged that at the request of defendant he entered into a written contract of which he failed to understand the import to perform janitor service at the defendant’s passenger station at Taylorville, Illinois, as an independent contractor and that he performed such services until January 9, 1943; that he was in fact not an independent contractor but a mere employee of defendant; that defendant conceived the scheme of denominating him an independent contractor in order to evade the effect of a…