RUSSELL v. TORCH CLUB


26 N.J. Super. 75 (1953)

97 A.2d 196

GLORIA RUSSELL, PETITIONER-APPELLEE, v. THE TORCH CLUB, A CORPORATION, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson County Court Law Division.

Decided May 15, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Samuel M. Cole, attorney for respondent-appellant (Mr. Louis J. Greenberg, of counsel).

Mr. Noah Lichtenberg, attorney for petitioner-appellee (Mr. Aaron Gordon, of counsel).


DREWEN, J.C.C.

There was an award of compensation in the bureau and respondent appeals. The one question presented here is whether petitioner's status at the time of the injury was that of an employee or an independent contractor.

Petitioner was an entertainer in the art of song. She was engaged by respondent to perform at a place of public resort owned and conducted by it in Union City and known, in the parlance of our time, as a night club. The engagement...

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