Richards v. Nationwide Homes

Claimant has one assignment of error and that is “that the court erred in signing and entering the judgment.”

The parties stipulated that claimant on 29 November 1961 sustained an injury by accident. The decisive question presented for decision is whether claimant at the time he sustained his injury by accident was an employee of Nationwide Homes, as contended by claimant, or an independent contractor, as contended by defendants, or a sub-contractor, who was an independent contractor as to his contractor Nationwide Homes when he was injured.

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