Queck-Berner v. MacY

The plaintiff was injured on June 28, 1919, while employed by the defendant upon the defendant’s private country estate or home, Chilmark Farm. The defendant in answer to the complaint pleaded as a separate defense that the defendant and the plaintiff by their joint election became subject to the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, and that the liability prescribed in said act is exclusive.

At the trial it was stipulated that the defendant was “ duly and lawfully covered by Workmen’s Compensation Insurance for all employees at Chilmark Farm, the private home of V. Everitt Macy, near…