Continental Casualty Co. v. Payne

1. “Where one is employed generally to perform certain services for another, and there is no specific contract to do a certain piece of work according to specifications for a stipulated sum, it is inferable that the employer has retained the right to control the manner, method, and means of the performance of the contract, and that the employee is not an independent contractor.” Mitchem v. Shearman Concrete Pipe Co., 45 Ga. App. 809 (165 S. E. 889). Where the owner of a mine employed another person to mine talc for a stipulated sum of money per ton, and to haul the talc and place it upon…