W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Crossley

POSTER, Justice.

Appellant owned and operated a sawmill at Fayette, Ala., where it had its main office. It owned much timber land situated in Lamar county. Appellee was engaged by Lee Newman to help him cut and skid timber from defendant’s timber land to a point of concentration and load it on trucks. It was hauled to defendant’s mill independent of contract with Newman. If Newman was an independent contractor, appellee was not an employee of appellant. We will refer to them as plaintiff and defendant. On the other hand, if Newman was one who did what “is commonly known as ‘piece work,’ or in…