Willis v. Taylor & Fenn Co.

The Superior Court dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal from a finding and award of the workmen’s compensation commissioner in favor of the defendants, the employer and its insurer, upon the ground that the plaintiff’s injury did not arise out of the employment. The question upon the present appeal is whether the trial court was warranted in sustaining this finding.

The material facts in the commissioner’s finding may be thus summarized: On April 26, 1949, the plaintiff and John Harrison were fellow employees. The plaintiff found offensive language written on his locker which he charged was the…