JAMES D. BREWER LOGGING v. EMPLOYMENT DIVISION


552 P.2d 286 (1976)

JAMES D. BREWER LOGGING, Petitioner, v. EMPLOYMENT DIVISION, Ross Morgan, Administrator, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided July 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard F. Bednarz, Salem, filed the brief for petitioner.

Lee Johnson, Atty. Gen., W. Michael Gillette, Sol. Gen., and John W. Burgess, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salem, filed the brief for respondent.

Before SCHWAB, C.J., and LANGTRY and FORT, JJ.


SCHWAB, Chief Judge.

The sole issue is whether certain individuals were employes of petitioner, thus making petitioner liable for unemployment compensation taxes, or whether those individuals were instead independent contractors.

Petitioner was a logging company which had a contract to build logging roads onto a timber owner's land, fall and buck timber, and transport it to designated landing sites. Petitioner hired Thomas Mealue and Joel Clouse to do the...

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