Parker Stave Company v. Hines

The question to be determined by' this appeal is whether appellee, John Dorris Hines, was an independent contractor or an employee of appellant, Parker Stave 'Company, at the time of his injury on April 28,1944, Avhen a log rolled from a truck which was being loaded and struck appellee, crushing his foot. The claim for compensation was resisted by the stave company and its insurance carrier on the ground that appellee was an independent contractor, and not an employee, at the time of his injury.

At a hearing before a referee at Prescott, Arkansas, on October 19, 1944, it was held that appellee…