Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Industrial Commission

The facts, which are undisputed, are that Thomison was an employee of E. L. Peterson. Peterson was engaged in business on his sole account. He entered into an agreement with the Gagen Lumber Company to sell logs to it. The Lumber Company had formerly done its own logging, but had closed up that department of the business some time before the transactions involved in this case occurred. Peterson was a farmer from whom the Lumber Company had, after it stopped logging on its own account and at different times, bought logs. The Lumber Company lent Peterson money with which he purchased a tract of…