Empire Home Builders v. Guthrie

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The principal questions are concerned with whether appellee, Paul A. Guthrie, was an employee of appellant, Empire Home Builders, Inc., or an independent contractor; the one-year statute of limitations; the percentage of loss of wage earning capacity; average weekly wage; and whether there was an apportionment of disability.

*18Guthrie sustained an injury on May 24, 1962, while doing plumbing work for Empire Home Builders, Inc. Empire was in the business of building and selling residences in the Pascagoula-Moss Point area. For six…