Court Opinion

ID: 9548693
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:07:03.608418+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:17.743638
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BROWN, Justice,1
specially concurring.
I concur in the result reached by the court in this case. I think, however, that the standard for determining the existence of an employment relationship, under the circumstances of this case, is more accurately set out in Boehm v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce, 748 P.2d 704, 712-713 (Wyo.1987), where we said:
We determine the existence of an employment relationship as a matter of law when only one reasonable inference about the existence of the asserted relationship can be drawn from the facts. Battlefield, Inc. v. Neely, Wyo., 656 P.2d 1154, 1160 (1983). The controlling inquiry in determining if an employment relationship exists is whether the alleged employer retained the right to control the alleged employee’s work. Id., (citing Combined Insurance Company of America v. Sinclair, Wyo., 584 P.2d 1034, 1042 (1978)). If the right of control has been exercised, but never retained, an employment relationship does not exist for that reason only. Battlefield, Inc. v. Neely, supra, at 1161. (Emphasis added.)

. Chief Justice, Retired, June 30, 1988.