Simmons v. Smith

The appeal is from a judgment following a directed verdict for the appellees. The question to be decided is whether the appellant was engaged in extra-hazardous, and thus compensable, employment at the time of the injury suffered by her in 1949. The State Industrial Accident Commission decided that the appellees were not employers, and the appellant was not an employee, within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Cornelia Simmons, the appellant, appealed to the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City and the case went to trial before a jury. At the conclusion of the whole cas"e, the…