Keefer v. Industrial Commission

In the Common Pleas Court the claimant, Chas. H. Keefer, recovered a verdict and judgment entitling him to participate in-the Workmen’s Compensation Fund because of injuries sustained on February 4, 1933, in this county while in the employ of Century Express Lines, .Inc., a motor freight transportation company with headquarters at Cleveland.

The Industrial Commission contends on appeal, as it did in the trial court, that there was no contract of hire between Keefer and the Century Express' Lines, Inc., at the time of the injuries, and that the relation ship of employer and employee did not…