Beach v. Velzy

Van Kirk, J.:

The principal question in the case is whether or not the claimant was an independent contractor. The wife of the appellant Frank E. Yelzy owned a four-family apartment house. The appellant did the business in respect to this house for his wife. The claimant had been working for Rundell & Weigel, contractors, as foreman of the job, and as such had put a new roof upon the apartment house, except the front slope of the building. The appellant then talked with the claimant and asked him if he would finish the roof. As a result of the conversation this paper was drawn up by the…