Moss v. Central of Georgia Railroad

How courts have described this case

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

• refraining from applying Georgia case law to the question of plaintiff’s employment status under FELA
• “[T]he problem of whether an FELA plaintiff is an independent contractor or an employee is a problem of federal law.”
• a factor in determining the plaintiff’s status as an independent contractor or an employee is “whether or not the parties believe they are creating an agency relationship”
• one may he both a servant and an independent contractor with respect to his employer; question is whether person was servant or independent, contractor at time of injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).