 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Philip Loring Spooner, Abram Daniel Smith, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold - 1914 - 768 pages
...be summarize d as "one who, exercising an independMadix v. Hochgreve Brewing Co. 154 Wls. 448. ent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods and without being subject to control of his employer, except as to the result of his work." Powell v. Virginia C. Co. 88 Tenn. 692,... | |
 | 1914 - 1340 pages
...contractor is thus defined: "An independent contractor is one who, carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being ; subject to the control of his employer as to^ the means by which the result Is to be accomplished, but only as... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1914 - 1398 pages
...contractors.5 — One is an independent contractor where, in the exercise of an independent employment, he contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, without being subject to his master's control except as to the results of the work.6 The question of... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1915 - 986 pages
...20, 1915. No. 18203. 1. Master and Servant: "INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOB." An "independent contractor" is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts...to do a piece of work according to his own methods, without being subject to the control of his employer except as to the result of the work. Bodwell v.... | |
 | Washington (State) - 1915 - 1432 pages
...as quoted in this case: "An independent contractor is one who, carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer as to the means by which the result is to be accomplished, but only as... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1915 - 718 pages
...contractor," as distinguished from a mere employee, is one who carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and that being subject to the control of his employer as to the means by which the result is to be accomplished,... | |
 | 1916 - 1226 pages
...the Court.) 1. MASTEE AND SEBVANT <S=>88— "INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR." An independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts...to do a piece of work according to his own methods, without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result o£ the work (citing... | |
 | Fred P. Caldwell - 1916 - 1200 pages
...Owen, 147 Ky. 1, 143 SW 421. An independent contractor is one who, carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer as to the means by which the result is to be accomplished, but only as... | |
 | Heman Gerald Chapin - 1917 - 720 pages
...reasonable care was not exercised in his selection." An independent contractor has been defined as "one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts...according to his own methods and without being subject to control of his employer, except as to the result of his work." •* To this relation the doctrine of... | |
 | North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - 1918 - 726 pages
...Cal. Civ. Code, § 2009. An independent contractor is one who, carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control, as to the means by which the result is to be accomplished, of anyone, but only as to the... | |
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So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work. 
