Thomas Bros. Lumber Co. v. Hill

Appellant, Thomas Bros. Lumber Co. is a partnership, composed of several brothers, and is engaged, in that firm name, in the operation of a saw mill and lumber yard at Curtis, Clark county, Arkansas. They employed one Johnie Bean, who owned a portable saw mill, to cut logs off their land and saw same into lumber for $10 per M. delivered. Bean hired and fired his own employees, but Thomas Bros, kept his pay roll and paid his men. The only control Thomas Bros, exercised over Bean was to designate the dimensions of the lumber cut from their logs. We assume that Bean was an independent…