Legal Opinion

White's Case

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided May 5, 1925PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtDeasy, J.

Under the Workmen’s Compensation Law an employer engaged in more than one kind of business, may become an assenting employer as to all. or any. In assenting he must.specify the business or businesses “concerning which he desires to come under the provisions” of the law. Public Acts of 1919, Chap. 238, Sec. 3.

In the instant case the employer carried on a saw mill business and to provide logs for the mill conducted, about four miles from the mill, a woods operation. While employed as a chopper in the woods, the petitioners husband accidentally sustained a fatal injury.

An employer, circumstanced…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. White's CaseSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1927
  2. LeClair v. WallingfordSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1957

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