Banister v. State Industrial Accident Commission

In March, 1931, plaintiff, while employed in cutting brush for the city of Portland, inadvertently came into contact with poison-oak in ignorance of what it was and thereby sustained an injury which resulted in his total disability for a period of about nineteen days. He applied to tbe State Industrial Accident Commission for compensation but Ms claim was rejected upon the single ground that “the condition suffered was not due to an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment”. He appealed therefrom to the circuit court for Multnomah county, where a trial was had by…