Maciejewski v. Graton & Knight Co.

This is an t ction of tort for personal injuries sustained on June 26, 1942, brought by an employee against his employer, who was not a subscriber under the workmen’s compensation law, G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152.

Until the amendments made by St. 1943, c. 529, which took effect on Novemtier 15, 1943, the workmen’s compensation law provided a voluntary system, and an employer, as well as an employee, had an option to remain outside that system. But the policy of the Commonwealth was to draw all employers into that system by putting those who remained outside it under legal disadvantages in actions…