Bartunek v. Becker

This appeal presents the question of whether an employee injured while working in an auto body shop is barred from recovery under the Nebraska workmen’s compensation law because the body shop is located upon a farm site and the injured employee works both for the body shop and as a farmhand. On rehearing before three members of the Workmen’s Compensation Court, the initial order of dismissal entered by a single judge of the Workmen’s Compensation Court was reversed, and the three-judge panel found that the employee, Dwight Bartunek, had sustained an injury arising out of and in the course of…