Ratliff v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “"A person may become an employee within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Act if he is performing a service for another with the latter's consent and subject to his control or direction. No formal contract between the two is necessary, and there need be no specific agreement as to how much is to be done or how long the arrangement shall continue. Nor is it required that the amount or terms of payment be settled, so long as the circumstances fairly indicate that the services were not intended as a gratuity and both parties understood that payment was to be made therefor." (Italics supplied by the court.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 212 So. 2d 540 - Lewis v. Bellow