Gigax v. Ralston Purina Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “The workers’ compensation laws were not designed to relieve one other than the employer from any liability imposed by statute or by common law.”
• because workers' compensation laws were passed before modern corporate structuring, whether parent corporation was entitled to immunity for injuries to an employee of kindred corporation was an \unresolved\ \pristine\ issue
• because workers’ compensation laws were passed before modern corporate structuring, whether parent corporation was entitled to immunity for injuries to an employee of kindred corporation was an \unresolved” \pristine” issue
• “The question of whether a worker is an employee within the meaning of the Compensation Act_be-comes a question of law only when but one inference can reasonably be drawn from the facts.”
• \The question of whether a worker is an employee within the meaning of the Compensation Act .... becomes a question of law only when but one inference can reasonably be drawn from the facts.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).