State v. Lenard's Trash Service

In 1976, Lenard’s Trash Service, which held a contract with Garden City granting it the exclusive right to collect garbage in the City, entered into written agreements with Robert Hogue and Walter Lindsay under which Lenard’s paid them to collect garbage. The agreements had been drafted by Lenard Claiborne, a layman and the president of Lenard’s. In 1977, the Department of Employment ruled that the services performed by Hogue and Lindsay were covered employment under I.C. § 72-1316(d)(1). Thereafter, Claiborne retained an attorney to draft new agreements, the purpose of which was to cast…