Miller v. Washington State Employment Security Department

In September, 1966, Joseph C. Miller, a logging contractor, entered into a contract with owners of timber to log all merchantable timber on a 230-acre parcel of land in Grays Harbor County. Miller had his own logging crew who performed yarding and loading operations, but he subcontracted the falling and bucking operations to Louis Uitto and William Fuller.

The written subcontract provided simply that Miller would pay Uitto and Fuller $3.85 per thousand, net scale, for falling and bucking all timber over 4 inches In diameter *504on the 230 acres; directed that Uitto and Fuller would furnish their…