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Title: Hinckley's Case
Author : Aroostook Supreme Court of Maine
Release Date : January 04, 1940
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 52 KB

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The petitioner, Durward L. Hinckley, who claims that he was an employee of the Bridge Construction Corporation, seeks compensation for an industrial accident. After a hearing the Commission found that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of the employment and ruled that the petition should be dismissed. A confirmatory decree was entered and the petitioner appealed. The petitioner had been in the employ of the company as a fireman on a steam shovel just prior to the week commencing June 4, 1939. The job was completed and he had gone to his home. The shovel was left at Waterville. On Sunday, June 4, Rossi, the superintendent of the company, called Sydney Knott at Phillips who had operated the shovel, told him that the apparatus had to be moved for a job at Van Buren, and asked him to go with the shovel to Van Buren and to operate it there. Knott asked if the petitioner could have the job of firing, and Rossi assented to such employment. The shovel was to be transported to Van Buren on a truck. Knott and Hinckley drove in Knott's automobile to Waterville. On Monday morning Hinckley fired the boiler, and Knott drove the shovel under its own power and placed it on the truck. Hinckley rode on the truck keeping up the fire under the boiler for a time after they had started. Knott drove in his car to Augusta apparently to get a license and joined the truck later on the route. Thereafter Hinckley rode with him. The next day at Haynesville they came to a low overhead bridge. The duffel pipe on top of the boiler would not clear this, and Knott told the petitioner that they would have to remove the pipe. The petitioner got up on the truck, Knott passed him a wrench, and while the petitioner was attempting to unscrew the pipe, he fell and suffered a broken back for which he now claims compensation.