Massey v. Poteau Trucking Co.

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

The question is whether — as a matter of law based, as it is contended, on undisputed facts — an injured workman who sought compensation under Act 319 of 1939, as amended, (and whose claim was rejected by the commission and circuit court) was an employe of a sub-contractor; or, conversely, was he engaged to do a specific task according to his own methods, without being subject to control except as to results? See Ice Service Company v. Forbess, 180 Ark. 253, 21 S. W. 2d 411, cited in Hobbs-Western Company v. Carmical, 192 Ark. 59, 91 S. W. 2d 605.

Leonard W. Massey…