Peters's Case

On this appeal from a decree of the Superior Court confirming an award of the Industrial Accident Board, we accept the following facts. In the early-morning of August 15, 1968, the employee Peters was having lunch at a location in the plant not prohibited to him for the purpose, in the company of another employee, Johnson, who was an official of the union local. One Chapman, a former employee known to Johnson and Peters, came in, quarreled with Johnson about the local’s refusal to give him a transfer card, and began to assault Johnson. Peters, who was not a party to the quarrel, tried but…