Albertini v. Hull Lease

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court reversing an order of the industrial accident board which denied respondent’s claim for compensation for disability caused by injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by Hull Lease, a mining partnership. The board’s order was based on the ground that respondent was a member of the mining partnership which operated the mine where he worked when the accident occurred and was, therefore, not an employee within the meaning of the workmen’s compensation law.

Whether he was an employee, as contemplated by that law,…