Crilly v. Ballou

Once more we consider the great remedial statute, the workmen’s compensation act. The case before us involves a boy of some 16 years. Pie and a teen-age friend had been employed by a contractor engaged in roofing and siding work. From time to time they ivould throw shingles and nails back and forth at each other. These acts, assaults in point of law, arose from youthful exuberance, rather than from vindictiveness, or animosity. Nevertheless, the last shingle thrown, put out the claimant’s eye. He claims compensation. In opposition it is said that the injury did not arise out of and in the…