Showers v. Lund

The compensation commissioner and the district court in turn denied compensation on the ground that plaintiff was not an employee but was an independent contractor. That is the only ground of this appeal.

Whether one is an employee or an independent contractor must be determined from the circumstances of each particular case. Potter v. Scotts Bluff County, 112 Neb. 318. “There is no hard and fast rule by which to determine whether one sustains the relation of employee *57or that of an independent contractor. It has frequently been held by this and other courts that the relation must be determined…