Case Name: WESTBROOK v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY et al.
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1967-06-20
Citations: 116 Ga. App. 37
Docket Number: 42770
Parties: WESTBROOK v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY et al.
Judges: Jordan, P. J., and Quillian, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 37–37

Head Matter:
42770.
WESTBROOK v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY et al.
Argued May 4, 1967
Decided June 20, 1967.
E. Louis Adams, for appellant.
Smith, Gardner, Wiggins & Geer, B. C. Gardner, Jr., for appellees.

Opinion:
Deen, Judge.
The Board of Workmen's Compensation, hearing a compensation case and making its own finding of fact, was authorized by evidence in the record to find that the claimant's accident did not arise in the course of his employment. The board found that the claimant was employed by Middle-brooks Brothers, a partnership of which Hugh Middlebrooks was an employee-overseer paid on a percentage of profits basis, and not by Middlebrooks Milling Company of which Hugh Middlebrooks was part owner; that the claimant was at the time of his injury performing services personal to Hugh Middlebrooks although he was paid by the partnership for his time, and that because of these facts the injury was not compensable. Such finding is in accord with American Mut. Liab. Ins. Co. v. Lemming, 187 Ga. 378 (200 SE 141) although that case is itself contrary to the trend in many jurisdictions. See 172 ALR, Anno., p. 378.
The judgment of the superior court affirming the award denying compensation is
Affirmed.
Jordan, P. J., and Quillian, J., concur.