Producers Chemical Company v. McKay

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that general employer retained control in part because general employer provided the worker and the equipment for a specific “relatively brief” task and that the worker “was accountable only to [the general employer]” in his operation of the relevant equipment
• explaining that, in the borrowed-servant context, there is a contract between the two employers that is either express or implied
• “Solution of the question rests in right of control of the manner in which the employees perform the services necessary to accomplishment of their ultimate obligation.”
• “When a contract, written or oral, between two employers expressly provides that one or the other shall have right of control, solution of the [borrowed servant] question is relatively simple”
• whether general employees of one employer become borrowed employees of another is often a difficult question
• supplier of compressor involved in explosion sent its employees to job site to operate compressor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).