Western Electric Co. v. Capes

How courts have described this case

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• construction contractor was not a statutory employer of an employee injured who worked for a company contracted to fill the building’s vending machines
• contractor not statutory employer where injured employee worked for company who merely filled the vending machines at a plant engaged in the contractual work of manufacturing electric cables
• “[T]o abort an appeal to which the applicant is entitled when such applicant is entirely without fault in the premises would be to deny such litigant a right guaranteed by the Constitution of this state and would be a denial of due process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).