Richards v. Indianapolis Abattoir Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the defendants from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner for the third district in favor of the plaintiff, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, J.; the court confirmed the action of the Compensation Commissioner and dismissed the appeal, and from this judgment the defendants appealed.
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Appeal by the defendants from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner for the third district in favor of the plaintiff, taken to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Warner, J.; the court confirmed the action of the Compensation Commissioner and dismissed the appeal, and from this judgment the defendants appealed. The Commissioner found these facts: The plaintiff was a driver of the defendant employer, and on the day of the injury had been engaged in his employment from about six o’clock in the morning up to about twelve o’clock noon, during which his work had…
1Opinion of the CourtRoraback, J.
Generally speaking, “an injury to an employee may be said to arise 'in the course of his employment,’ when it occurs within the period of his employment, at a place where he reasonably may be, and while he is reasonably fulfilling the duties of his employment, or is engaged in doing something incidental to it.” Larke v. Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co., 90 Conn. 303, 97 Atl. 320; Mann v. Glastonbury Knitting Co., 90 Conn. 116, 119, 96 Atl. 368.
The controlling question here presented is whether Richards, the plaintiff, when injured, was actually-doing the work he was employed to do, or whether he…
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