Gray's Case

Obviously, under the statute providing for compensating workmen for accidental injuries arising both out of and in the course of their employments, an injury which occurs while but one of these conjunctive elements is present, is not to be recompensed.

The paper was breaking, to use expressions of the business, on the machine that the claimant was backtending, and he was trying to remedy that trouble in the absence from the mill of a coemployee called the third hand.

When the latter returned the backtender admonished him to give notice of any future leaving. Whether the backtender, who was…