Legal Opinion

Powell v. Employment Security Commission

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 2, 1956No. Docket 17, Calendar 46,517Published

1Opinion of the Court

345 Mich. 455 (1956)

75 N.W.2d 874

POWELL

v.

EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMMISSION.

Docket No. 17, Calendar No. 46,517.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 2, 1956.

Clark, Klein, Brucker & Waples, for plaintiffs.

Thomas M. Kavanagh, Attorney General, Edmund E. Shepherd, Solicitor General, and Edward Coughlin, Assistant Attorney General, for defendants.

BOYLES, J.

The controlling question here for decision is whether one Rebecca Cohen, who was paid by plaintiffs-appellants $1 for each photograph negative she "retouched" for the studio, was their employee, or an independent contractor, under the Michigan…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
  2. Rutherford Food Corp. v. McCombSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  3. United States v. SilkSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  4. Tuttle v. Embury-Martin Lumber Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1916
  5. Powell v. Employment Security CommissionMichigan Supreme Court · 1956

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