De Rosa v. Albert F. Amling Co.

The plaintiff, injured while working on the job, sued the company for which he was working. The jury awarded $150,000 and the defendant has appealed. The sole issues before the court are whether the trial court should have ruled as a matter of law that the plaintiff was defendant’s employee and not an independent contractor; whether the court erred in refusing the defendant’s tendered instructions stating the factors to be considered in determining whether the plaintiff was an employee or an independent contractor at the time of the accident, and whether the cumulative effect of certain…