Kentucky Farm & Power Equipment Dealers Ass'n v. Fulkerson Bros., Inc.

STEPHENS, Justice.

The issue to be decided is whether an unpaid officer of a non-profit trade association is an “employee” within the purview of KRS 342.640(2), a provision of the Kentucky Workers’ Compensation Act. We answer the question in the negative.

Edwin P. Fulkerson on December 5,1978, was vice-president of Fulkerson Brothers, Inc., a family owned corporation engaged in the sale of farm equipment, hardware and allied merchandise. For many years he had been the president and chief executive officer of the family business. In recent years, however, he had turned the reins of the business…