Newsome v. Loper

Townsend, Judge.

The only issue in this workmen’s compensation case is whether the employer, who was not insured, had “regularly in service less than 10 employees in the same business within this State” so as to exclude him from the provisions of the act under Code (Ann.) § 114-107.

The employer, who operated a laundry and dry cleaning establishment, testified from pay roll records that he had 9 employees in service the week of the injury; 10 the week previously, one of wh’Om was “laid off” at the end of that week; 9 the week before that, and 10 the week before that. No further effort was made…