Eugene Williams v. Delta Truck Body Company, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the familiar “borrowed servant” question, i.e., whether a plaintiff seeking a common law damage recovery for personal injuries is the servant of the employer in pursuit of whose activities he was injured, and hence barred from third party recovery against that employer by the exclusive remedy provisions of the worker’s compensation laws, or whether he remains the servant of the employer who “loaned” him, so as to be entitled to bring a third party suit. Because temporary employment services have vastly increased their presence in…