DiLeo's Case

This is an appeal by the insurer from a decree entered on March 6, 1936, ordering it to pay compensation to the employee at a specified rate from June 19, 1933, to be continued in accordance with the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act. The ground of objection is that the court was without jurisdiction because the contract of hiring between the employee and his insured employer, and the injury received in the course of and growing out of that employment, took place on land belonging to the United States of America located in the town of Rut-land within the territorial limits of this…