Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court June 29, 1938 (MacAleese's Case)

Lummus, J.

An employee of one Lamb, a rigger hired as an independent contractor by H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc., a milk dealer, to remove a defective transformer from its plant, received on October 22, 1936, “a personal injury arising out of and in the course of his employment” (G. L. [Ter. Ed.] c. 152, § 26), while removing the transformer.