Hughes v. American Brass Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Superior Court sustaining a finding and award made by the workmen’s compensation commissioner for the fifth district. The principal claim of the defendant is that the court erred in sustaining the conclusion of the commissioner that the plaintiff’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment.

On December 4, 1952, and for a long time prior thereto, the defendant owned and operated, in the town of Ansonia, a plant which included a building known as the casting shop. The plaintiff was employed as part of the maintenance force…