Townsend v. Loeffelbein

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation law. George F. Townsend, employee, plaintiff, was a mechanic in the garage of his employer, the Ideal Gar*792age, defendant, at Grand Island, and while there engaged in the duties of his employment March 12, 1930, he inhaled vapors from a gasoline spraying machine operated by other employees. He was ill later the same day, left the garage during working hours and was taken to a hospital March 14, 1930, with pneumonia. He attributed pneumonia to the vapors from the spraying machine and presented to the compensation commissioner a claim for…