Dominic v. Faucett

In this workmen’s compensation case, where an award to plaintiff is reviewed on certiorari, the question is whether plaintiff was an employee or an independent contractor.

Plaintiff and another man were shown by defendant Faucett a strip of land, sufficiently described, from which they were to cut and to swamp all merchantable logs, at a certain price per log. Plaintiff was to pay a dollar a day for his board at defendant’s camp, and he was to pay for the use of tools furnished him by defendant. Plaintiff and his companion accepted the work. Plaintiff was injured when he had worked nearly two…