Free v. McEver

(After stating the foregoing facts.) It is contended by counsel for the employer and the insurance carrier that the employee is a farm laborer, and that therefore thé Workmen’s Compensation Law does not apply to him, as provided in Code § 114-107. In determining this question the words of the statute must be construed reasonably and liberally with the view of applying the beneficent provisions of the statute so as to effectuate its purposes, and to extend them to every class of workman and employee that can fairly be brought within the provisions of the law. See Lee v. Claxton, 70 Ga. App.…