168 A. 877 | Conn. | 1933
The sole issue presented upon this appeal is whether or not the compensation commissioner was correct in holding that the employment of the plaintiff by the defendant was not within the terms of the compensation law, a decision which he based upon the ground that the defendant had "regularly less than five employees." General Statutes, § 5227. It is agreed that the defendant regularly employed three persons, a cook, a waitress and a chauffeur. In addition she employed a hairdresser who came to her home to dress her hair every Tuesday except when the defendant was out of town or ill, and a seamstress who came to the home one Monday a month and stayed all day. The hairdresser practiced her profession by appointment in the homes of her customers, and the seamstress carried on her trade by appointment at the homes of her customers or at her own home.
The exception in the statute looks primarily to the number of employees the particular employer has and only incidentally to the circumstances of the employment of each. See Green v. Benedict,
There is no error.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.