workman

workman
A working man. A man employed for wages in labor, whether in tilling the soil or manufacturing, whether an artificer or common laborer. Anno: 129 ALR 990. Any person who occupies the status of servant under the law of master and servant. One engaged under a contract of employment between him and an alleged employer. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 132. A term not intended to embrace every person of whatever rank in the service of an employer, but used in a restrictive sense, intended to establish a classification of those in service on the basis of the character of work ordinarily connoted by the term. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 91. This term as used in constitutional and charter provisions has generally been construed as not including a public officer. Anno: 5 ALR2d 416. In general parlance, the word workman perhaps connotes a grade inferior to that of an "employee," but no such distinction appears in the workmen's compensation statutes. A superintendent has been held to be included in the comprehensive sense of such a statute, and likewise a professional football player. 58 Am J1st Workm Comp § 133.

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