227 Mass. 44 | Mass. | 1917
The employee was a teacher' employed at an annual salary in the automobile department of Lowell Industrial and
The accident happened at a quarter past four o’clock in the afternoon, and was the consequential result of some unknown act or omission of a boy while engaged in welding. This proceeding is brought by the father and the administratrix of the deceased employee, to recover the compensation provided by the workmen’s compensation act, (St. 1911, c. 751, and amendments thereof,) the defendant city having accepted St. 1913, c. 807, which provides that “laborers, workmen and mechanics” employed by it shall be within the protection of the workmen’s compensation act.
The only question now presented is whether the deceased was a laborer, workman or mechanic, within the meaning of St. 1913, c. 807. Upon the facts the vocation of the employee was that of a teacher charged with the duty of imparting to his pupils, through precept and demonstration, knowledge of the use of various tools and machines and of the practical application of them, sufficient
Decree affirmed.