Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Clements

1. In claims for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, where the question is whether the injured person, or the person under whom he was working, occupied the relation of an employee or of an independent contractor toward the alleged employer, the line of demarkation is often so close that each ease must be determined on its own particular facts. The crucial test to be applied, however, in determining whether the relationship of the parties under a contract for performance of labor is that of master and servant, or that of employer and independent contractor, lies in whether the…