55 Ga. App. 714 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1937
Under the provisions of the workmen's compensation act (Code, § 114-710), an award of the full commission on
The evidence is to the effect that the claimant, Easlon Scott, was employed by Alfred McCard, who operated a sawmill, and was injured by a tree falling on him while he was helping McCard repair the water-pump connected with the boiler at the sawmill;
“Under the Georgia statute and decisions, the test to be applied, in determining whether the relationship of the parties under a contract for the performance of labor is that of employer and servant, or that of employer and independent contractor, lies in whether the contract gives, or the employer assumes, the right to control the time, manner, and method of executing the work, as distinguished from the right merely to require certain definite results in conformity to the contract. Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance Co. v. Lee, 36 Ga. App. 248 (136 S. E. 173).” Yearwood v. Peabody, 45 Ga. App. 451 (164 S. E. 901); Cooper v. Dixie Construction Co., 45 Ga. App. 420 (2) (165 S. E. 152); Bentley v. Jones, 48 Ga. App. 587, 590 (173 S. E. 737). It was held in Irving v. Home Accident Insurance Co., 36 Ga. App. 551 (1) (137 S. E. 105) : “Where the owner of timber furnishes a sawmill and employs another person to saw the timber into lumber, and pays him a definite sum per thousand feet for the sawing, which sum is paid in advancements as the lumber
Under its facts, the case at bar is controlled by the rulings in Irving v. Rome Accident Insurance Co., supra, Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance Co. v. Lee, supra, Quinan v. Standard Fuel Supply Co., 25 Ga. App. 47 (102 S. E. 543), Lamb v. Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills, 26 Ga. App. 572 (106 S. E. 607), Cooper v. Dixon Construction Co., supra, Bentley v. Jones, supra, and Bibb Manufacturing Co. v. Martin, 53 Ga. App. 137 (185 S. E. 137), instead of by Davis v. Starrett, 39 Ga. App. 422, 427 (147 S. E. 530), Love Lumber Co. v. Thigpen, 42 Ga. App. 83 (155 S. E. 77), Rome Accident Insurance Co. v. Daniels, 42 Ga. App. 648 (157 S. E. 245), Taylor v. Lumbermen’s Mutual Casualty Co., 43 Ga. App. 292 (158 S. E. 623) and Liberty Lumber Co. v. Silas, 49 Ga. App. 262 (175 S. E. 265).
Judgment reversed, with direction.