Court Opinion

ID: 9713158
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 05:09:31.049082+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:17.052277
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Dethmers, C. J.
(concurring). The opinion of this Court in Powell v. Employment Security Commission (1956), 345 Mich 455, reiterated and reapplied the rule constantly adhered to by this Court, as disclosed in the cases therein - cited and many others, that the test of the employer and employee relationship is the right to control. The referee’s finding of facts, adopted by the appeal hoard, contained a *700specific finding of certain facts, supported by competent evidence, bearing on the question of right to control. Applying, as he said, the test laid down and followed by this Court, that is the right to control test, the referee determined that the right to control existed in this case and that, accordingly, there was an employer-employee relationship between plaintiff’s decedent and defendant employer. Because the finding of such facts is supported by competent evidence and application thereto of said test permits of the result reached by the referee and affirmed by the appeal board, we, too, affirm.
Carr and Kelly, JJ., concurred with Dethmers, C.J.