Weeks v. C.L. Dickert Lumber Company

LAWSON, Justice.

' This is a workman’s compensation case wherein Fred Norman Weeks is the plaintiff and C. L. Dickert Lumber Company, a partnership, hereinafter referred to as Dickert, is the defendant.

Weeks was injured on August 8, 1956, while loading logs on a truck. The logs belonged to Dickert. But Dickert took the position that Weeks was not its employee, but an employee of one Dewey Adams, with whom Dickert had contracted to cut a tract of timber and to haul the logs to Dickert’s mill.

The trial court held that Weeks was not an employee of Dickert at the time of his injury and denied…