Chapman's Case

This is an appeal by the insurer from a final decree awarding compensation to an employee by reason of an injury received while he was milling lumber into clapboards during his lunch period.. The reviewing board found that it was customary for employees to take orders from third persons for lumber, some of which was required to be milled; that the employee would get a sales slip for the stock or material, which would be charged to the employee and deducted from his pay; and that if the material was to be milled he would usually be given a mill order showing the work to be done, which was to…