Town of Presque Isle v. Industrial Commission

It is urged that the award should be set aside because it is unsupported by any evidence that at the time of his death Rutherford was acting in the course of his employment as constable of the town of Presque Isle. It is said that there is.no evidence to indicate whether Rutherford was shot while engaged in a private quarrel with Boring or in an attempt to accomplish his arrest.

It quite satisfactorily appears from the evidence that Boring was a bootlegger and that he was engaged in the illicit manufacture of alcoholic beverages. There is evidence to indicate that at the time of the shooting…