Schirmer v. Cedar County Farmers Telephone Co.

This appeal in a workman’s compensation case presents *183two questions: (1) Was the plaintiff’s disability caused by the accident which he suffered? (2) Assuming an affirmative answer to that question, did the trial court err in allowing an attorney fee to the plaintiff?

Plaintiff was an employee of the defendant company as a lineman. While so engaged, he, using lineman’s spurs, had climbed a pole to fasten some “floater” insulators in position on the outer end of a cross-arm. He had climbed the pole, had fastened the spur on his right leg in the pole, had his left arm across the cross-arm and…