Campbell v. Nelson

Certiorari to review an order of the industrial commission denying petition of relator, Elizabeth Campbell, for compensation because of the death of Arthur O. Campbell.

Decedent, by occupation a steeple-jack, while engaged in painting a smokestack at Fairmont, Minnesota, on November 6, 1926, fell about 70 feet to the ground and was instantly killed. Decedent and relator had been for more than six years residents of Omaha, Nebraska, and neither had ever resided in the state of Minnesota. The referee found, and the commission by its order approved the findings, that the accident which resulted…