White v. Arnold Wood Heel Co.

As originally worded the Compensation Act, (P. L., c. 178, s. 1), applied “only to workmen engaged in manual or mechanical labor” in the employments enumerated, one of which was, (par. ii), “Work in any shop, mill, factory or other place on, in connection with or in proximity to, any hoisting apparatus, or any machinery propelled or operated by steam or other mechanical power in which shop, mill, factory or other place five or more persons are engaged in manual or mechanical labor.” These words, we recently held, were not broad enough to extend the benefits of the act to a clerk in a retail…