Clement v. Minning

The term “employment” is defined by the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Maryland to mean, only “a trade, business or occupation carried on by the employer for pecuniary gain.” Code, art. 101, sec. 65. The appellant was accidentally injured while working as a painter employed by the appellee on his residence then being constructed. At the trial of an appeal to the Baltimore City Court from the rejection by the State Industrial Accident Commission of the appellant’s claim for compensation, the evidence was held to be legally insufficient to prove that the appellee was conducting, as a trade,…