Court Opinion

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Mr. Justice Greenhill,
joined by Justice Culver, dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. Even assuming that Paul Sullivan was an employee, I do not believe that insurance had been purchased or issued to cover the hazardous occupation of crop dusting. Under our recent decision in Pacific Indemnity Company v. Jones (1959), this volume 164, 327 S.W. 2d 441, crop dusting by airplane is, in my opinion, a different kind of employment (separate business enterprise) from the operation of an ordinary store which sells seed and other merchandise. It most certainly is a different insurance risk.
Opinion delivered April 13, 1960.
Rehearing overruled May 18, 1960.