Marlow v. E. L. Jones & Son, Inc.

Brailsford, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case the issue is whether the claimant, Alvin Marlow, Jr., was a covered employee or an independent contractor on August 24, 1964, when he sustained an accidental injury. This issue is jurisdictional and the court has the power and duty to consider all of the evidence and reach its own conclusion therefrom. Allen v. Phinney Oil Co., 241 S. C. 173, 127 S. E. (2d) 448.

The claimant, his brother, Lewis Marlow, and one Clinton Brown were regularly employed at a textile mill in Greenville County. They were also skilled roofers and moonlighted…