Boothby v. D.R. Johnson Lumber Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that independent contractor's status limited owner's duty to contractor's employee
• holding that independent contractor’s status limited owner’s duty to contractor’s employee
• holding that there was no retained right to control despite the fact that the contract provided that the defendant could declare the plaintiffs employer in breach if it did not comply with safety requirements
• noting that a retained right to control can be based on either a source of legal authority, such as a contract, or evidence of a retained right
• noting that a retained right to control can be based on either a source of legal authority, such as a contract, or evidence of a retained right
• risk-producing activity was operation of the log loader that killed the decedent rather than the decedent’s activity at the time of his death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).