440 So. 2d 1096 - Patrick v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 410 So. 2d 109 - Tidwell Industries, Inc. v. Kennedy · 366 So. 2d 725 - WIREGRASS COMP. MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC INC. v. Price · Wells v. Wells · 359 So. 2d 398 - Sager v. Royce Kershaw Co., Inc. · 380 So. 2d 910 - Alside Supply Co. v. Meeks
Most-quoted passages
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“"[I]t is generally recognized that the exemption of farm labor from workmen's compensation coverage is construed according to the character of the work regularly performed by the employee, not according to the nature of the employer's business. See 1C A. Larson, The Law of Workmen's Compensation § 53.00 (1982). In other words, it is the nature of the work the employee does that determines whether he is a `farm laborer' for purposes of Ala.Code § 25-5-50 (1975). Therefore, generally speaking, the employer's business can be agricultural, but if the employee's work is nonagricultural or significantly disassociated from the normal routine of running a farm, the farm laborer exemption will not apply. On the other hand, if the specific employee's work is nonagricultural, but is such an indispensable part of the normal routine of running a farm that the job is not merely incidental to the farming operation, then the farm laborer exemption will apply."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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