Fidelity & Casualty Company v. Landers

Where, on review of a judgment of a superior court, affirming an award of the State Board of Workmen’s Compensation granting compensation to the widow of a deceased workman coming within the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, the only question presented is whether the deceased workman, at the time of the injury which resulted in his death, was acting within the scope of his employment for the defendant employer, Standard Construction Company, or within the scope of an independent contractor, a carpenter’s union, and it appears from the evidence that the deceased was in the general…