Brown v. L. H. Bottoms Truck Lines, Inc.

The petition to rebear the appeal and to reconsider the decision heretofore rendered on procedural grounds, affirming the judgment below, reported ante, 65, 40 S. E. (2d), 476, was allowed for the reason that the defendants’ exception to the judgment, under the facts of this case, is regarded as sufficient to bring up for review the single question of law presented by the written contract between claimants’ intestate and the defendant Motor Lines, appearing in the record, which was relied on by defendants as establishing the relationship between them of independent contractor, rather than…