The test to determine whether one who renders service to another does so as a contractor or not is to ascertain whether he renders the service in the course of an independent occupation, representing the will of his employer only as to the result of his... The Southwestern Reporter - Page 1171906Full view - About this book
| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1912 - 966 pages
...court adopts the definition given by Thompson on Negligence of an independent contractor, as one "AV!IO renders service in the course of an occupation representing...not as to the means by which it is accomplished." In L. & NR Company v. Smith's Admr., 134 Ky., 47, this court held that a contractor, doing work under... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1920 - 684 pages
...of the work, and that plaintiff in error was only interested in getting and disposing of the lumber. "An independent contractor is one who renders service...not as to the means by which it is accomplished." (2 Thompson on Negligence, sec. 22, p. 899; see, also, Messmer v. Bell & Coggeshall Co. (Ky.) 19 Ann.... | |
| 1879 - 540 pages
...course of an independent occupation, representing the will of the employer only as to the result of the work and not as to the means by which it is accomplished. Shear. & Redf. on Neg. §§ 76-79 ; 1 Redf. on Railways, 505 ; Pack v. Mayor, etc. 4 Seld. 222 ; Gourdier... | |
| 1878 - 560 pages
...of his employment. Forsythe v. Hooper, 11 Allen, 419 ; Corbin v. America Mills, 27 Conn. 274. If one renders service in the course of an occupation representing...and not as to the means by which it is accomplished — it is independent employment. See Pack v. Mayor of Neu York, 8 NY 222 ; Barry v. City of St. Louis,... | |
| 1878 - 542 pages
...Mills, 27 Conn. 274.) If one renders service in the course of an occupation representing the will of an employer only as to the result of his work, and not as to the means by which it is accomplished, it is independent employment. (See Pack vs. Mayor of New York, 8 NY 222; Barry vs. City of St. Louis,... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 884 pages
...of an employment. Forsyth v. Hooper, 11 Allen, 419 ; Corbin v. America Mills, 27 Conn. 274. If one renders service, in the course of an occupation, representing...not as to the means by •which it is accomplished, it is an independent employment. Shearman & Redfield on Neg., § 74 ; Pack v. The Mayor, etc., of New... | |
| 1880 - 920 pages
...Hay ward, 7 QB 960 ; Knight v . Fox. 5 Exch. independent contractor, within the meaning of this rule, is one who renders service in the course of an occupation,...of his work, and not as to the means by which it is accomplished.1 The contractor must answer for his own wrongs and the wrongs committed in the course... | |
| Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1881 - 968 pages
...accomplished : Cunningham e. Railroad Co., 51 Tex., 503. If one renders service in the course of nn occupation representing the will of his employer only,...to the result of his work, and not as to the means as to which it is accomplished, it is an independent employment : Harrison v. Collins, 86 Penn. St.... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1881 - 968 pages
...the service in the course of an independent occupation, representing the will of his employer 'inly as to the result of his work, and not as to the means by which it is to he accomplished." * * * " One who contracts to do a specific piece of work, furnishing his own assistants,... | |
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