Elkhorn Coal Co. v. Adams

CLAY, Commissioner.

In this workmen’s compensation case the circuit court reversed an order of the Board which denied appellee compensation for an admitted injury to his left leg. The sole question .is whether or not appellee was an employee of appellant coal company at the time of the injury.

Appellee had from time to time worked for appellant as a mining engineer. Sometimes he had worked in a partnership with his father and an uncle, and it seems clear ■from the record that at such times he was employed as an independent contractor. However, at other times he had worked as an employee. He had…