Armour & Co. v. Industrial Board

This writ of error was sued out to review the judgment of the circuit court of Cook county which confirmed the finding and award of the Industrial Board of Illinois on the claim of Alice I. Fitzgerald, administratrix of the estate of Walter A. Fitzgerald, against the plaintiff in error, allowing her the sum of $3500 in weekly installments on account of the death of the decedent, who was her husband.

Walter A. Fitzgerald was employed by Armour & Co. as a teamster from December, 1912, until March, 1914. About seven o’clock in the morning of March 13, 1914, he started in apparent good health,…