Anderson v. Massachusetts Real Estate Co.

Loring, Chief Justice.

This case is here on certiorari from the industrial commission. A claim for compensation was filed with the commission and referred to and heard by a referee. He made findings that the injury to petitioner did not arise out of and in the course of employment. On appeal, the industrial commission adopted and affirmed the findings of the referee.

Petitioner had several employers and worked as janitor, fire tender, and general handy man in their apartment houses, which were within three blocks of each other in the city of Duluth. He would do the work in one apartment…