Simmons's Case

The decree in the Superior Court denied compensation in accordance with the reviewing board’s finding and decision. The employee’s testimony included the following: She worked at the Bridgway Hotel as a uniformed chambermaid; she bought the uniforms herself and took care of her own uniforms and those “of some of the others”; she wore and laundered the uniforms with the knowledge and consent of her employer; she was on her way home on August 2,1957, carrying two bags of uniforms to launder when she fell in the street about half a mile from the hotel. The board member’s decision, adopted by the…