STEVENS v. NELSON

No. 46217.

244 N.W.2d 267 (1976)

Gary Warren STEVENS, Respondent, v. James F. NELSON, d.b.a. Jim Nelson Flying Service (uninsured), Relator, State Treasurer, Custodian of the Special Compensation Fund, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

July 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Parris and Thomas A. Olcott, Mankato, for relator.

Sahr, Kunert & Tambornino and John L. Tambornino, Minneapolis, for Stevens.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Thomas Lockhart, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for State Treasurer.

Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.


PER CURIAM.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board affirming the determination of the compensation judge that petitioner, Gary Warren Stevens, was an employee of relator, James F. Nelson, and thus within the coverage of the compensation act.

Nelson, a spray pilot, met Stevens in the summer of 1971 while fulfilling a contract to spray a farm in the Cannon Falls, Minnesota, area. Stevens was a licensed commercial pilot and at that...

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