Saucier's Case
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On appeal. This is an appeal from a decree of a sitting Justice ' approving the decision of the Chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission. On June 6, 1918, the petitioner, Laure Saucier, was employed by T. A. Huston & Company at its factories in Auburn. Her duties were to put frosting or icing on small cakes.
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On appeal. This is an appeal from a decree of a sitting Justice ' approving the decision of the Chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission. On June 6, 1918, the petitioner, Laure Saucier, was employed by T. A. Huston & Company at its factories in Auburn. Her duties were to put frosting or icing on small cakes. On the day of the accident having completed her work for the forenoon at 11:30, she left the room with other employees to go to the dressing-room, preparatory to leaving for her lunch, passing through two intervening rooms, and stepped up to an exhaust fan situate about twenty-one…
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the sitting Justice approving the decision of the Chairman of the Industrial Accident Commission. We think this case turns entirely upon the question of fact, whether the injury for which the plaintiff seeks compensation arose out of, and in the course of, the employment. The decisive question is, whether the accident arose out of the employment; and that depends upon whether there was any evidence to support the finding of the Chairman. The statement of facts sufficiently appears from the decision of the Chairman. So much of the decision as is pertinent to…
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