Bowman Dairy Co. v. Industrial Commission

Carl W. Pelkmann, deceased, was a milk wagon driver employed by the Bowman Dairy Company at its sub-station in Evanston, Illinois. On February 5, 1917, while driving his horse along one of the streets of Wilmette, Illinois, in the course of his employment of delivering milk, his milk wagon was struck by an automobile and tipped over and he was killed. He was survived by his widow, Margaret, and his two minor children, one of which since the institution of these proceedings has died. -In June, 1917, the widow filed her petition before the Industrial Commission asking that compensation be…