Slessor v. Board of Education

Defendant board of education purchased from Mower & Rose, dealers, certain gymnasium equipment, to be installed by the seller in a school building. Mower & Rose were not operating under the workmen’s compensation act (2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 8407 et seq.), and employed Alexander Slessor, who was an employer operating under the act, to make the installation. Mr. Slessor was a general contractor, and for seven or eight years had installed gymnasium equipment for Mower & Rose, collected pay for doing so, and paid his employees. While about the work of installation Mr. Slessor was killed and the…