Carter v. Industrial Commission

This workmen’s compensation appeal comes here pursuant to our Rule 302(a) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 110A, par. 302(a)). It involves a single issue: Whether an Industrial Commission affirmance of an arbitrator’s decision that no employer-employee relationship existed between claimant, Terry Carter, and respondent, Clark Oil Sc Refining Corp. (the Company), was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence. The circuit court of Madison County held it was not.

On July 31, 1970, claimant, Terry Carter, operated a Clark Oil Sc Refining Corp. filling station in Collinsville which he leased from…