COASTAL TIMBERLANDS. INC. v. Brown

Webb, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which appellant Coastal Timberlands, Inc., alleged to be the employer of the deceased timber producer, contends that the decedent was an independent contractor since he hired and paid his own crew, used his own equipment, purchased his own supplies, was paid by Coastal a certain amount per thousand board feet produced without deduction for social security or withholding taxes, and in general "ran his operation as he pleased,” the only specifications of Coastal being as to the size of the timber to be cut and the area to be cut from on land…