Hiestand v. Ristau

This is a proceeding under the workmen’s compensation law. Comp. St. 1929, secs. 48-101 to 48-161. While Alfons Hiestand, a carpenter, was engaged in shingling a barn, the scaffolding which had protected him on the roof gave way and he fell to the ground, November 20, 1936, a distance of 14 feet, and broke the os calcis of his left foot. Pleading that the accident and resulting injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, he presented to the compensation court a claim for compensation, joining as defendants Rudolph A. Ristau and the Equitable Life Assurance Society, a corporation…