Fahler v. City of Minot

This is an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer to a complaint. The complaint alleges that Leo S. Fahler, while employed by the defendant city as a policeman and while engaged in the performance of his duties as such, met his death while attempting to arrest one Avery Erickson; that the defendant city and Fahler, as its peace and police officer, were subject to the provisions of chapter 162 of the Session Laws for the year 1919 (the Workmen’s Compensation Law), but that the defendant city, in violation of the law and of its duty, failed to comply with the provisions of the law, and…