Woody v. Waibel

How courts have described this case

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

• “The criteria in the workmen’s compensation cases are keyed to the purpose of the workmen’s compensation laws.”
• owner-driver of log truck was sufficiently controlled by logging operator who paid him to establish that driver was in master-servant relation, not independent contractor
• although control is “essential ingredient” in determining employment status, workers’ compensation statutes do not preclude consideration of nature of work factors when some evidence of control exists
• ‘The criteria in the workmen’s compensation cases are keyed to the purpose of the workmen’s compensation laws.’
• same; distinguishing when assessing question of law may involve predicate question of fact
• identifying and applying the \nature of the work\ test factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).