Reed v. Township of Monticello

Lees, C.

While respondent was engaged in cutting brush beside a town road in the town of Monticello, one of his fingers was pierced by a thorn. Infection followed and the finger was amputated. Some months later respondent claimed compensation from the town under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The Industrial Commission allowed the claim, and a writ of certiorari brings the order of the commission before us for review. The principal question presented is whether the relator and the respondent bore to each other the relation of employer and employe, as those terms are defined by G. S. 1923, §…