McCown v. Hines

PARKER, Justice.

The issue before this Court is whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that James Robert McCown (“plaintiff’) 1 was an independent contractor and in reversing the Industrial Commission’s (“Commission”) determination that plaintiff was an employee entitled to workers’ compensation benefits.

In March 1997 plaintiff filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits for an injury received while re-roofing a house. At the compensation hearing, the deputy commissioner received the following evidence:

In April 1996 defendant Curtis Hines contacted plaintiff about re-roofing a…