Mitchell v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

By SHERICK, J.

This appeal presents the question as to whether a person who is called upon orally by a deputy sheriff, in the absence of the sheriff and other deputies, and is informally deputized by him to assist in the making of an arrest of one reputed to be dangerous, and is killed in the performance of that project m an automobile accident when returning with the prisoner, and whose estate is being compensated by the county Í01 his services, is an employee of the county, under the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, whose dependents are entitled to participate in the…