Standard Theatres, Inc. v. Young

The claimant, Will Young, was employed by the Liberty Theatre in Oklahoma City as a porter. He performed the usual duties of a porter, cleaning up, running errands and being a general hands man. Sometimes he also went into the moving picture machine booth, where there was an electrically-driven projection machine, and kept watch while the man employed on that job would absent himself temporarily. Although at the hearing claimant at one place stated, “I operate it and watch the machinery,” the record is otherwise absolutely devoid of any intimation that claimant purported to assist in the…