SIMON SERVICE INCORPORATED v. MITCHELL

No. 3942.

307 P.2d 110 (1957)

SIMON SERVICE INCORPORATED, a Nevada Corporation, Appellant, v. Allen E. MITCHELL, Respondent. Nevada Industrial Commission, Intervenor Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

February 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morse, Graves & Compton and C. Norman Cornwall, of Las Vegas, for Appellant.

Hawkins & Cannon, of Las Vegas, for Respondent Mitchell. Richard R. Hanna, of Carson City, for Intervenor Respondent.


BADT, Chief Justice.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the 1951 amendment to the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act (NRS 616.01 et seq.) removes from eligibility for coverage, under the act, a person who undertakes, without the employment of a "principal contractor", to retain in his own hands the business of erecting a building, parceling out fractions of the work of construction among separate contractors.

Prior to 1951, NRS 616.085 read as follows...

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