Cook v. Prehistoric Ponds, Inc.

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

Erman Cook, Jr., filed an application for discretionary appeal after the superior court held that his employment with Prehistoric Ponds, Inc. does not come within the Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”) because the employer is a farm, and farm laborers are not covered by the Act.1 We granted his application.

Days after Cook’s application was granted, this Court decided another workers’ compensation case involving the question of whether Prehistoric Ponds is a farm and therefore excluded from the Act. In that case, Gill v. Prehistoric Ponds, Inc.,2 we held that…