Shannon's Case

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which there was a decree for the employee. The single question presented, as stated in the insurer’s brief, is whether the claimant, at the time of his injury, was an employee as that word is defined in the statute, G. L. c. 152, § 1 (4), or whether he comes within the exception in said definition, as “ one whose employment is not in the..usual course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his employer.”

The employee was working on the employer’s premises when injured. He was walking across the mill yard, carrying an iron pipe to be used as…