Hawthorn v. Hillyer-Deutsch-Edwards, Inc.

Oscar Hawthorn, employee of Hillyer-Deutsch-Edwards, Inc., was struck on the head and badly hurt by the cab of one of its locomotives on which he was employed as fireman.. He sues for compensation under the Employer’s Liability Act of this State, Section 8 (amd. Act 85 of 1926), on the ground that the injury he received has produced in him a permanent total disability to do work of any kind.

He alleges that he was employed on one of defendant’s logging trains as fireman. That on April 1, 1927, while engaged in his duties as such, that the train went over a portion of track, from under which…