Case ID: conn_103/html/0760-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James Cormican vs. Margaret McMahon.
    First Judicial District, Hartford,
    January Term, 1926.
    Wheeler, C. J., Curtis, Keeler, Mai/ebie and Banks, Js.
    Argued January 6th
    decided January 28th, 1926.
    Appeal by defendant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the first district in favor of the plaintiff, taken to the Superior Court in. Hartford County and tried to the court, Brown, J.; judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant
    
      No error.
    
    
      Cornelius J. Danaher, for the appellant (defendant).
    
      Ufa E. Guthrie, for the appellee (plaintiff).
   Per Curiam.

Upon the former appeal, reported in 102 Conn. 234, 128 Atl. 709, we held that the conclusion of the commissioner that the injury arose in the course of the claimant’s employment was not supported by the subordinate facts. We directed the Superior Court to return the case to the commissioner for a further finding of the specific facts, as to whether the claimant suffered his injury while engaged in horseplay or in the course of his employment. The commissioner has added to the original finding the specific facts surrounding the claimant’s employment, out of and in the course of which his injury arose. These facts show that the claimant had reason to believe that at boy was in the vicinity of the refrigerator for the purpose of purloining therefrom the defendant’s foodstuffs, and thereupon he, being the manager of the defendant’s hotel, through, a desire to protect her property, and while removing the boy from the vicinity of the refrigerator, fell through an open doorway and suffered the injury for which he claims compensation. These facts fully support the conclusion that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment. The present appeal is wholly without merit.

There is no error.