Hopkins v. Darlington Veneer Co.

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

Darlington Veneer Company, a corporation, owns and operates a veneer plant at Darlington, South Carolina. In order to assure a supply of the necessary logs, blocks or timber to operate its plant, it had purchased certain of the timber from various tracts of land. In accord with its custom, Dar-lington Veneer Company contracted with one W. R. Smith to cut and haul this timber to its plant. Smith owned his own logging equipment, hired and paid his own employees, who worked solely under his directions, and was paid at so much per thousand feet for…