Lee's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Certification to the Superior Court under the provisions of' the workmen’s compensation act of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to the claimant after' finding and ruling that “the personal injury received by” him while in the employ of Washburn and Heywood Chair Company on November 10, 1920, “as a result of being thrown to the cement walk by colliding with a fellow employee, while he, Lee, was on his way to perform the duty under his contract…
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Certification to the Superior Court under the provisions of' the workmen’s compensation act of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board awarding compensation to the claimant after' finding and ruling that “the personal injury received by” him while in the employ of Washburn and Heywood Chair Company on November 10, 1920, “as a result of being thrown to the cement walk by colliding with a fellow employee, while he, Lee, was on his way to perform the duty under his contract of hire of ‘ringing out,’ or registering his time, arose out of and in the course of his-employment.” Further findings…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
While the employee was on the premises of his employer, and after leaving the building in which he worked and about to enter the one where the time clock was in order to ring out his time at noon, he was knocked down by a fellow workman who was pushed out of the doorway of that building by another employee, and received injuries for which he seeks compensation.
*476The claimant’s injuries were the result of fooling or horseplay of fellow employees, in which he took no part. The board member found that he “was the innocent victim of a friendly scrap between three other employees, one of whom was…
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- Rayner v. Sligh Furniture Co.Michigan Supreme Court · 1914
- Willis v. State Industrial CommissionSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1920
- Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co. v. HavolicWisconsin Supreme Court · 1916
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- Higgins's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
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