Pegg v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

This controversy involves the question whether messenger boys of a telegraph company are within the purview of the workmen’s compensation act. (Laws 1927, ch. 232.) The question was decided in the affirmative by the compensation commissioner and by the trial court, and the defendant appeals.

The commissioner’s findings disclosed, among other things, that the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company is engaged in the operation of a telegraph line; that its duty is to pick up messages through messenger-boy service and transmit and deliver them to the…