Harry L. Young & Sons, Inc. v. Ashton

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiff Young seeks review and reversal of an order of the Industrial Commission awarding workmen’s compensation to defendant Dennis A. Ashton for injury to his back when he slipped and fell from a truck which the Commission found he was driving in employment of the plaintiff. Plaintiff’s contention below, persisted in on this review, is that Mr. Ashton was operating as an independent contractor.

Mr. Ashton was a truck driver who, through a series of events, the detail of which we can spare here, undertook to drive a truck belonging to the plaintiff. He went through the…