Bourgeois v. Cacciapuoti

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court dismissing an appeal taken by him from the denial of compensation by the workmen’s compensation commissioner. The sole question is whether the court was correct in sustaining the commissioner’s conclusion that the plaintiff was an independent contractor and not an employee of the defendant.

The facts are undisputed. For several years the plaintiff had conducted a plumbing business as a contractor and had advertised himself in that capacity. He had no regular employees other than a bookkeeper who worked on a part-time basis.…