Court Opinion

ID: 6447289
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:24:41.212921+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:52:50.375910
License: Public Domain

Decree affirmed. The Industrial Accident Board found (a) that the claimant, Dustrude, the operator of a tractor-drawn trailer, was an employee of the uninsured “owner-operator,” Leighton; and (b) that Leighton was, as to the insured carrier and trailer owner, Chicago Express, Inc., an independent contractor under a “trip lease” arrangement. See American Trucking Assns. Inc. v. United States, 344 U. S. 298, 302-306. The findings were not without evidential support and were not tainted by error of law. Van Bibber’s Case, 343 Mass. 443, 447. They are determinative of the ease. Costs of this appeal may be allowed by the single justice under G. L. c. 152, § 11A.