Johnson v. Asheville Hosiery Co.

Two questions of law are presented by the record:

1. Was the plaintiff an independent contractor and therefore not entitled to compensation?

2. Was the employment “both casual and not in the course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his employer?”

Upon the facts appearing in the record, the first question of law must be answered in the negative. “An independent contractor has been defined as one who exercises an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own judgment and methods and without being subject to bis employer except as to tbe results of…