Decker v. Glasscock Trucking Service, Inc.

STEWART, Judge.

The controversy to be resolved in this appeal is whether John Traylor, d. b. a Traylor Trucking Service (herein called “Traylor”) and his truck driver, Roy Shelby Cook, had the relationship with Glass-cock Trucking Service, Inc. (herein called “Glasscock”) of master and servant or of independent contractor.

Appellants (five in number) sued Tray-lor, Cook, Glasscock and Material Haulers, Inc., to recover damages allegedly incurred to their person and property when a truck owned by Traylor, driven by Cook, ran into a car owned and operated by appellant, Eugene Decker. The other…