 | 1928 - 306 pages
...Juris (vol. 31, p. 473) defines the independent contractor as follows: Generally the term signifies one who, exercising an Independent employment, contracts...subject to the control of his employer, except as to the resnit of the work, and who has the right to employ and direct the action of the workmen, Indepiaidently... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - 1924 - 428 pages
...relation of employer and employe. The essential element of an independent contractor is that he may do the work according to his own methods and without being subject to the control of his employment except as to the result of the work, and not the means by which it is accomplished. (Dunnell's... | |
 | United States. Renegotiation Board - 1952 - 418 pages
...518,523. An 'independent contractor' is most frequently defined as one who contracts to do certain work according to his own methods and without being...subject to the control of his employer, except as to the product or result of his work. 27. Am. Jr., Independent Contractor, § 2, p. U8l." (2) Commission sales.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1957 - 1218 pages
...— that is, until recently. The traditional definition of "independent contractor" Is a person who contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods without being subject to the control of the other contracting party except as to the result of the... | |
 | United States. Tax Court - 1958 - 1382 pages
...amount of a contract or contracts with a Department or of a subcontract or subcontracts ; or do certain work according to his own methods and without being subject to the control of his employer, except ns to the product or result of his work. 27 Am. Jur., Independent Contractor, § 2, p. 481. Also, in... | |
 | 1921 - 1542 pages
...to the means by which it is accomplished. 1 Shearm. & Redf. Neg. §§ 164, 165. So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an...control of his employer, except as to the result of the work. Powell v. Virginia Constr. Co. 88 Tenn. 692, 17 Am. St. Rep. 925, 13 SW 691;" Waters v. Pioneer... | |
 | 1915 - 364 pages
...Supreme Court of Oklahoma in the case of Chicago, RI & P. Ry. Co. v. Bennett, 36 Okla. 358, 128 Pac. 705, states: "An independent contractor is one who, exercising...control of his employer except as to the result of the work (quoting Words and Phrases, Vol. 4, p. 3542)." The commission accordingly awarded compensation... | |
 | 1921 - 1544 pages
...to the means by which it is accomplished. 1 Shearm. & Redf. Neg. §§ 164, 165. So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an...control of his employer, except as to the result of the work. Powell v. Virginia Constr. Co. 88 Tenn. 692, 17 Am. St. Rep. 925, 13 SW 691;" Waters v. Pioneer... | |
 | 1928 - 1612 pages
...independent contractor is defined in Pottorff v. Fidelity Coal Min. Co. 86 Kan. 774, 122 Рас. 120, to be "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." Syl. H 2. See also St. Louis & SF R.... | |
 | 1926 - 1622 pages
...to be employees, saying: "The essential element of an independent contractor is that he may do the work according to his own methods and without being subject to the control of his employment, except as to the result of the work, and not the means by which it is accomplished." Herrón... | |
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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. 
