RICHARDS v. NATIONWIDE HOMES

No. 173.

139 S.E.2d 645 (1965)

263 N.C. 295

J. P. RICHARDS, Employee, v. NATIONWIDE HOMES, Employer, Shelby Mutual Casualty Co., Carrier.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 15, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Harvey Turner, Kinston, for claimant appellant.

Poisson & Barnhill, by M. V. Barnhill, Jr., Wilmington, for defendant appellees.


PARKER, Justice.

Claimant has one assignment of error and that is `that the court erred in signing and entering the judgment."

The parties stipulated that claimant on 29 November 1961 sustained an injury by accident. The decisive question presented for decision is whether claimant at the time he sustained his injury by accident was an employee of Nationwide Homes, as contended by claimant, or an independent contractor, as contended by defendants, or a subcontractor...

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