Stout v. State Industrial Accident Commission

The decisive question here is whether the record presents substantial testimony to prove that within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, at the time plaintiff sustained the injury to his hand and arm, he was a workman employed by the intervenor Brown.

The section of the statute defining the terms employer and workman, consists of two paragraphs. Paragraph 1 thereof is as follows:

“The term ‘employer’, used in this act, shall be taken to mean any person, including receiver, administrator, executor or trustee, who shall contract for and secure the right to direct and control the…