SIGMON IKERD COMPANY v. NAPIER


297 S.W.2d 917 (1956)

SIGMON IKERD COMPANY, Inc., Appellant, v. Sam NAPIER, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied February 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lay & Knuckles and Grant F. Knuckles, Pineville, Robert L. Milby, Lexington, for appellant.

Helton & Helton, Pineville, for appellee.


SIMS, Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether Sam Napier was an employee of the Sigmon Ikerd Company, or an independent contractor, on August 25, 1954.

Napier urges that he was an employee of the defendant company on the occasion when he was injured, and consequently entitled to compensation benefits since the company was operating under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act. KRS, Chapter 342. The company contends that Napier was an independent...

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