Fortin v. Mayor of Chicopee

General Laws (Ter. Ed.) c. 41, § 100, as appearing in St. 1945, c. 670, provides that a city “shall indemnify” a fireman or a member of the fire department “to an amount not more than the amount recommended by the board or officer authorized to appoint” such fireman or *215member “for expenses or damages sustained by him while acting as” such fireman or member, including loss of pay by reason of absence from duty because of temporary incapacity caused by injury suffered through no fault of his own while in the actual performance of duty.1 See Quinlan v. Cambridge, 320 Mass. 124, 128.

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