Frank Martin-Laskin Co. v. Industrial Commission

While in the employ of the plaintiff the defendant Frank Goetsch received a blow on his head resulting in a venous hemorrhage of the brain. No written notice of the injury was served upon the employer, and upon the former appeal (172 Wis. 548, 179 N. W. 740) this court held that actual knowledge of the injury by a foreman of the employer, but not communicated to the employer, was not equivalent to the statutory notice. In the Commission’s memorandum of December 17, 1921, this ruling is vigorously assailed, resulting in a conclusion that by reason of the actual knowledge of the injury by the…