Joseph B. McKenna v. City of Waterbury

This appeal from the workmen’s compensation commissioner arises from an accident sustained by a city fireman while playing volley ball on the firehouse premises, at a time when he had no specific duty to perform.

I think I have examined all the Connecticut cases on the particular point involved and if a recovery is to be had it must largely rest upon the case of Smith v. Seamless Rubber Co., 111 Conn. 365, 368.

There our Court said:

“Where an employer merely permits an employee to perform a particular act, without direction or compulsion of any kind, the purpose and nature of the act becomes of…