City of Waycross v. Hayes

1. Where a city by resolution makes an appropriation for unemployment relief under the direction of the city manager, and administers the fund, not by giving away any part as a gift without return, but by employing laborers on its public property at the rate of fifteen cents an hour on a ten-hour day and a five-and-a-half-day week, and by rotating such laborers for a week’s employment at a time so as to give employment to as many as possible, an employee engaged in such work for the city at the time of his injury is not an employee of an “institution maintained and operated as [a] public…