Dean v. Stockham Pipe & Fittings Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The trial judge, with commendable care, made a full statement of the facts, his conclusions thereon, and his views of the law applicable thereto. The following excerpts bring to view the questions we are to consider:

“The deceased, J. J. Dean, was a night watchman at the plant of defendant. He was killed by an unknown person on the night of October 5,1928, at about 8:30 o’clock while he was on duty and making his rounds of the plant. * * *

“In this state of the evidence the question presented is: Is the accident compensable as one ‘arising out of and in…