Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n v. Burrell

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• a worker who sporadically helped his son in his logging contractor business was held not to be an employee where the worker had no contract and received no pay or had no expectation of pay
• One who assumes a service on his own free will without any express promise of remuneration is a volunteer and not an employee. Remuneration is a necessary element in a contract of hire

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