School City of Hammond v. Moriarty

This is an appeal from an award of compensation by the Industrial Board of Indiana. In order to properly understand the questions presented, we believe it will be helpful to set out in some detail the facts as disclosed by the record.

At all of the times referred to herein Jesse M. Moriarty was an employee of appellant at the George Rogers Clark School. It was his duty on Saturday mornings to clean the dust from the top of two boilers in the boiler room of the school. These boilers were about five and one-half to six feet in diameter; the top was fourteen or fifteen feet above the concrete…