Patterson v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Roger Patterson has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (board) affirming a referee’s action denying him benefits because he was not the employee of the corporation which he named in his claim petition as his employer.

The claimant, a resident of Ohio, suffered injuries in an accident in Cleveland, Ohio,1 while he was delivering coal by a tractor-trailer owned by Ray Fluke, identified as the president of Valley Feed & Trucking, Inc. (Valley Feed), an Ohio corporation. Fluke had leased the tractor-trailer to Wayne W. Sell Corporation (Wayne…