BILLINGS v. RALPH E. CURTIS & SON, INC.


408 A.2d 86 (1979)

Arnold L. BILLINGS v. RALPH E. CURTIS & SON, INC., et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

November 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall T. Cary (orally), Bangor, for plaintiff.

Mitchell, Ballou & Keith by Stephen J. Burlock (orally), Peter M. Weatherbee, Bangor, for defendants.

Before WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS and GLASSMAN, JJ.


NICHOLS, Justice.

On November 5, 1976, Arnold L. Billings sustained injuries when the truck-tractor he was operating skidded on a snow-covered hill. He seasonably petitioned for worker's compensation, naming as Respondents both the owner of the vehicle, Leo Cote, and Cote's lessee of that vehicle, Ralph E. Curtis & Son, Inc.

Upon appeal to this Court, we affirmed the judgment below that the owner, and not the lessee, was Billings' employer within the meaning...

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