WHITEHEAD v. SAFWAY STEEL PRODUCTS

No. 82, September Term, 1984.

304 Md. 67 (1985)

497 A.2d 803

SIDNEY J. WHITEHEAD, ET AL. v. SAFWAY STEEL PRODUCTS, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 17, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Johnson and Dennis F. O'Brien, Towson (White, Mindel, Clarke & Hill, Towson, on brief), for appellant.

Alva P. Weaver, III, Baltimore (Lord, Whip, Coughlan & Green, P.A., Baltimore, on brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and W. ALBERT MENCHINE, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


COUCH, Judge.

In this appeal we consider whether a person who is employed by a temporary services agency is also an employee of the company to which the worker is provisionally assigned. Preliminarily, however, we must decide whether the existence of an employment relationship was properly treated by the trial court as a legal, rather than factual, issue. We conclude that the question of relation was a matter of law for the trial court to decide, and affirm that court...

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