Brothers v. Dierks Lumber & Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that contracts relating to the sale of goods do not make “either the buyer or seller, or both, a ‘contractor’” within the principal-subcontractor parameters for creating statutory employer status under Arkansas’ workers’ compensation law
• requiring a party to “render substantial services in connection with the goods sold” to be considered a “contractor” under Arkansas’ workers’ compensation statutes
• “[W]hen the contract to sell is accompanied by an undertaking by either party to render substantial services in connection with the goods sold, that party is a ‘contractor’ within the meaning of the section.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).