Court Opinion

ID: 9582284
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:24:45.790181+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:37.242032
License: Public Domain

*621Felton, C. J.,
concurring specially. I concur in the judgment for the resaon that, when one employs another who is engaged in an independent business and actual control by the employer is not shown, and where the contract does not show whether there was a right of control reserved in the employer, there is a prima facie presumption that the employee is an independent contractor. The evidence in this case does not show actual control by the employer nor does the contract show that a right was reserved in the employer to control the employee and his servants. Code §§ 105-501 and 105-502. I think the burden of proof was on the plaintiff in this case to prove the exception stated in division 5 of Code § 105-502, which he failed to do.