Heyman Distributing Co. v. Industrial Commission

On certiorari, the superior court of Cook county reversed and set aside an award of the Industrial Commission in favor of plaintiffs in error, the parents and dependents of Seymour Gold, the deceased employee of the Heyman Distributing Company. We granted a writ of error to review its order.

The proof shows that for about two weeks prior to his death, Seymour Gold, a boy seventeen years old, was employed by the company as a stock room worker. The employer occupied the first and seventh floors of the building. Gold worked on the first and seventh floors and in the basement. It was part of his…