Van Meter v. Public Utilities Commission

The question to be determined is whether Van Meter, by reason of what he was doing for Rogers as hereinbefore described, was, within the meaning of Section 4923.02, Revised Code, “engaged in the business of private carriage of * * * property * * * or of providing or furnishing such transportation service, for hire, in or by motor-propelled vehicles * # * over any public highway.”

In order to bring him within the foregoing statutory language, we must find that, in doing what he was for Rogers, Van Meter was “engaged in the business” so specified.

In a broad sense, a servant, while engaged in the…