Roberts v. Industrial Commission

PRATT, Justice.

Ira M. Elder, a sheepshearer, made application for unemployment compensation. He named Frank E. Roberts, plaintiff herein, as his employer. The latter refused to make the required employer’s report. A hearing was had before an appeal tribunal. The decision was adverse to the plaintiff. The appeal examiner held that Roberts was an employer subject to the Unemployment Compensation law; that Elder was an employee of Roberts; and that Elder’s services were not agricultural labor, therefore not exempt from the law. Roberts sought an appeal to the Industrial Commission. That…