Green v. Independent Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that oil company and service station were independent contractors, in part, because station hired and fired its own employees
• explaining that right to terminate relationship with cause is not dispositive of relationship status between parties
• holding trial court erred in submitting to the jury the question of the relationship of the parties where sole evidence was their agreement
• holding trial court erred in submitting to jury question of relationship of parties where sole evidence was their agreement
• finding that right to terminate relationship with cause not dispositive of master-servant relationship
• finding independent contractor status on evidence available to court, which was mostly the parties’ written agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).