Jackson v. Fly

This case involves a controversy as to liability for payment of workmen’s compensation benefits. Its determination rests on answers to two questions: (1) Did Jessie Beach, the subcontractor,' have eight or more workmen regularly in his business when his employee, John S. Fly, the claimant, was injured. And if this was true, (2) is the Jackson Brothers Lumber Company, the primary contractor, liable to Fly for compensation benefits on account of an injury sustained on its job, when Beach had failed to secure such benefits.

The employers, subject to the provisions of our Workmen’s Compensation…