Conway v. Swift Company

Certiorari on the relation of the defendant, Swift & Company, to review the order of the industrial commission awarding compensation to the plaintiff, Gladys Conway, for the death of her husband, Leon Conway, an employe of the defendant.

On November 9, 1925, while working for the defendant in the stockyards at South St. Paul, Conway was chased by an animal and in attempting to escape was caught between a heavy gate and the side of a stockpen, underwent a strain, and received such a blow or was subjected to such a pressure as to break a watch which he carried in his shirt pocket over his left…