Banks v. Ellijay Lumber Co.

John G. Banks filed a claim with the Department of Industrial Belations for compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, against Ellijay Lumber Company. It appeared from the evidence that the claimant was injured while working as an employee at a sawmill belonging to the defendant. It appeared without' contradiction from the evidence that the defendant had employed Luther Parks to operate a sawmill belonging to it, and to saw lumber belonging to the defendant and put it in sticks, for which Parks was to be paid at the rate of $3 per thousand feet; that Parks employed his own help, among…