Jaax v. State

Claimant, Ernest J. Jaax, seeks to recover from respondent under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for injuries allegedly sustained as a result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment as a painter at the Chicago State Hospital.

On July 18, 1949, claimant, who had a history of calluses on his left foot, pared and lacerated the callus under the big toe on his left foot with a razor blade.

For about a month prior to that date, claimant had been in charge of eight men, who were redecorating the rooms of the apartment of the superintendent of the Farm Ward Building, which…