Varano's Case

This is an appeal by an insurer in a workmen’s compensation case.

We are concerned with the employee’s activities for a period of approximately three weeks ending on January 25, 1953. During the first two weeks of this period he was engaged principally in snow removal work, at times by hand shovelling but usually by the operation of a snow loading machine. During the last week he operated a gasoline shovel and other equipment to excavate a trench for a sewer line. Since 1951 he had been employed in this type of work by one DeFilippo, an excavating contractor, who on many occasions furnished…