Claim of McDermott v. Giles Varnish Co.

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from a . decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board holding that claimant sustained an accidental injury while within the scope of his employment. Claimant, a general handyman at the Giles Varnish Company’s plant for 11 years, was injured on Saturday, June 8, 1963, when as he was cutting tree branches at the personal dwelling of the president of Giles Varnish he fell from a ladder. .We can find no evidence in the present record to sustain the board’s conclusion .that the injury arose out of and in the course of claimant’s employment with *782the Giles…