Ferch v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Stone, Justice.

Certiorari to review an order of the industrial commission awarding compensation to the widow and surviving children of Arthur Ferch..

Saturday, February 18, 1939, Ferch was in relator’s employ as a “Saturday man” at one of its large grocery stores in Minneapolis. His job was to pack groceries for customers and to carry heavy loads to their cars. At 2:15 that afternoon he was directed to carry a 100-pound sack of sugar for a customer. Twenty minutes later the manager found him in the back room of the store. He “did not 'feel well.” His “side pained him.” On the manager’s…