Village of Streamwood Police Department v. Industrial Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook County reversing the Industrial Commission’s award of workmen’s compensation benefits to the claimant, Charles W. Gibbons, for injuries sustained in the performance of his duties as a police sergeant for the Village of Streamwood.

The claimant testified that on July 3, 1969, while on squad-car patrol duty, he and his partner responded to a call to assist the owner of a car wash who had locked himself out. While attempting to pry open a door with a crowbar at the request of the owner, claimant slipped and fell backwards onto a…