Kirkpatrick v. Peet

How courts have described this case

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

• door-to-door salespeople working in the capacity of “dealers” for a vacuum distributor provided service to the distributor
• question whether certain facts are sufficient to support an administrative finding that a certain legal relationship exists is a question of law for the court to decide
• door-to-door vacuum salesmen who sup- plied vacuums to individuals performed services for vacuum distributor
• door-to-door vacuum salesmen who supplied vacuums to individuals performed services for vacuum distributor
• door-to-door salesman provided services for remuneration to a vacuum distributor where the salesperson’s “remuneration was the difference between what he paid the [distributor] and the price for which the machine was sold to the customer”
• unemployment compensation act must be “construed broadly enough to include persons who, although independent contractors according to the common law test, are peculiarly subjected to the hazard of unemployment because of the nature of their occupation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).