Fisher v. Townsends, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the determination of whether a person is a servant or an independent contractor is ordinarily made by the factfinder
• “Because all employers are masters and all employees are servants, the terms employer/employee are often used interchangeably to denote a master/servant relationship.”
• “Because all employers are [principals] and all employees are [agents], the terms employer/employee are often used interchangeably to denote a [principal/agent] relationship.”
• “It is the actions taken by the parties, not the terms used in the contract, that are dispositive in determining whether they were principal and agent respectively.”
• discussing the difference between agent-independent contractors and non-agent independent contractors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).