Davis v. State Compensation Commissioner

Lively, Judge:

This is an appeal from a ruling of the State Compensation Commissioner which denied petitioner additional compensation on the ground that occupational diseases are not com-pensable under the workmen’s compensation law.

Claimant, twenty-one years of age, had been an employee of the Becldey Machine & Electric Company for three years. On September 5, 1928, he returned to his employment about eight o’clock in the evening, after the plant had been closed for the day, to take some cores out of the oven. He remained in the shop for fifteen or twenty minutes, then returned to his car,…