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A former chief of the University police is not a workman and therefore is not entitled to workmen's compensation for injuries received while attempting to quiet a College uprising, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed.
The Supreme Court reversed a decision of the State Industrial Accident Board which declared that the University should pay former police chief Alvin R. Randall 520 dollars for injuries sustained in a small riot on May 27, 1952.
The Court noted that Randall's duties included supervision of 30 officers, handling of University traffic and parking, and imposition of penalties for violations. It concluded that these are not the duties of the ordinary workman.
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