Court Opinion

ID: 9792328
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:27:08.346477+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:41.812744
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OPALA, Justice,
with whom LAVENDER, Vice Chief Justice, joins, dissenting.
When testing the status of a claimant qua employee or independent contractor, the court must place principal reliance on the parties’ actual conduct vis-a-vis one another, especially so when their actions appear at variance with the written contract by which the legal relationship came to be defined. Brewer v. Bama Pie, Inc., Okl., 390 P.2d 500, 502 (1964).
Because the parties’ actual conduct is clearly indicative of a master-servant bond, I dissent from today’s opinion.