Wormstead v. Town Manager of Saugus

The plaintiff, a policeman, brought this bill for declaratory and other relief in the Superior Court to establish his claim of right to be granted leave without loss of pay under G. L. c. 41, § 111F, as appearing in St. 1964, c. 149. This statute, in so far as it pertains to this case, grants leave without loss of pay to a police officer “incapacitated for duty because of injury sustained in the performance of his duty without fault of his own.”

The case was referred to a master, who, after holding hearings, found a number of subsidiary facts and concluded therefrom that the plaintiffs injury…