Supreme Judicial Court of Maine September 9, 1925 (Sargent v. Cornish Agricultural Ass'n)

An action of tort to recover damages for negligence in not providing a safe place for the plaintiff to work. The defense was that the defendant owed no duty to the plaintiff in this respect, as the relation of master and servant did not exist between them; that the plaintiff was in the employ of another at the time of his injury whose relation to the defendant was that of an independent