Martin v. City of Biddeford

This is an appeal from decree of a justice of the Superior Court, affirming decision of the Industrial Accident Commission, awarding compensation to petitioner.

The findings of facts, amply supported by the record, are in their essentials narratively stated as follows:

On February 23, 1940, Henry Martin was employed as a part-time laborer in the street department of the City of Bidde-ford. The city is divided, for street maintenance purposes, into districts, each supervised by a commissioner.

On the forenoon of that day, Martin was working in a crew engaged in sanding streets in District Number…