Thomas Smith Farms, Inc. v. Alday

182 So.2d 405 (1966)

THOMAS SMITH FARMS, INC., Petitioner,

v.

James R. ALDAY and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

No. 34433.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 2, 1966.

Steve M. Watkins, of Truett & Watkins, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Dye & Joanos, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondents.

DREW, Justice.

The claimant was injured when he fell from a mule barn he was constructing for his employer, a corporate farmer engaged primarily in growing tobacco. Claimant was a full-time employee hired to repair buildings and tenant houses and to erect new…