Foster v. Steed

How courts have described this case

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

• tort case holding that “if the defendant controls, or has the right [to] control, the manner in which the operations are to be carried out, the defendant is liable as a master”
• “[I]f the control extends only to the result to be achieved, the actor is regarded as an independent contractor, and the defendant is liable under neither respondeat superior nor the workmen’s compensation statutes.”
• reversing denial of summary judgment and finding no employer-employee relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).