Republic Iron & Steel Co. v. Industrial Commission

Charles E. Moore prior to his death had been an employee of defendant in error, the Republic Iron and Steel Company, at Moline, for twenty years, and during the last five years of his life was storekeeper and had charge of the stores. He worked seven days a week and was paid for Sunday work. A part of his work was to go to Moline to do chores, to get bolts, nuts and like things, and he was often sent to trains with mail. The last day he worked, Sunday, January 23, 1916, he left his home at six o’clock for his place of work. On that morning he checked up his store books and swept and mopped…