Employers Mutual Liability Insurance v. Brower

The appellants, Brower and the Standard Accident Insurance Company, contend that they are not liable for Tollefson’s causal negligence because he was operating his own truck as an independent contractor, and that the court erred in ruling, on motions after verdict, that Tollef son was acting as an employee of Brower. The existence of that relationship had to be established by the plaintiffs to entitle them to recover from Brower and his insurance carrier for Tollef-*488son’s negligence. The following facts were established by undisputed evidence: At the time of the accident, on July 19, 1932,…