Cash v. American Surety Company

Townsend, Judge.

The burden of proving the employer-employee relationship is on the claimant in a workmen’s compensation ease. Young v. Demos, 70 Ga. App. 577, 579 (28 S. E. 2d 891). However, in view of the liberal interpretation accorded compensation laws generally, it has been held that “in determining whether a claimant in a workmen’s compensation case is an employee and subject to the act, or an independent contractor and not so subject, any doubt is to be resolved in favor of his status as an employee rather than an independent contractor.” Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Henry, 56 Ga. App. 868,…