Roman v. Delta Broadcasting Co.

Plaintiffs appeal from an award of the workmen’s compensation commission denying compensation.

While there is support in the record for defendants’ claim that plaintiffs’ decedent and his brother, John, were partners engaged as independent contractors in doing for defendant broadcasting, company, hereinafter called defendant, the job oh which decedent was accidently injured and killed, nevertheless, after excluding matters equally within the knowledge of the deceased, the commission .made a finding of fact, supported by some competent evidence, that John entered into a contract with defendant…