Smith v. Globe Indemnity Company

As we see it, the claimant contends that her husband was an employee of Gordon Foods, Inc., because his immediate employer, South Georgia Distributing Company, was and is an agent of Gordon Foods, Inc. The question for decision, then, is whether Gordon had or assumed the right of control over the time, manner, and method of the operation of South Georgia Distributing Company. Bibb Mfg. Co. v. Martin, 53 Ga. App. 137, 141 (185 S. E. 137); Scott v. Minor, 55 Ga. App. 714, 716 (191 S. E. 263); Bituminous Cas. Corp. v. Wilkes, 77 Ga. App. 764, 766 (49 S. E. 2d 916). Cases involving this question…