Johnson v. HAHN BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION INC.

The defendant, Hahn Brothers Construction, Inc., appeals from a workmen’s compensation award made to the plaintiff by the district court for Douglas County, Nebraska, which followed an appeal to and trial de novo in that court after a denial of recovery by a single judge of the Workmen’s Compensation Court.

On this appeal the following three assignments; of error are made, viz., the district court erred in finding: (1) That a contract of hire existed which gave rise to an employee-employer relationship between the parties; (2) that the plaintiff was acting in the course of his employment at…