Pearson v. Armstrong Cork Co.

The petitioner in this case filed her petition on May 26th, 1925, to the workmen’s compensation bureau, praying for compensation for the death of her husband, alleging in response to question number seventeen on said petition as follows :

“Q. What was the nature of the accident, and how did it happen ?

"A. The petitioner’s deceased husband contracted in the course of his employment with respondent wood alcohol poisoning, the said poisoning being caused by the nature of the plaintiff’s business, and from which poisoning the petitioner’s husband died on or about May 12th, 1925.”,

The matter was…