Hawkins v. Portland Gas Light Co.

Nelson Hawkins was killed while in the employ of the Portland Gas Light Co., by a shot from a revolver in the hands of a crazed United States soldier. His daughter, Margaret L. Hawkins, alleged dependent, sought an award of compensation upon the ground that the injury causing the death of her father arose out of and in the course of • his employment as a foreman working for the defendant Company.

Hearing was had before a Commissioner of the Industrial Accident Commission. So far as material to the present issue, his findings of fact were as follows:

“Hawkins was on the shift whose hours of…