Decatur Construction Co. v. Industrial Commission

On January 16, 1919, William E. Wilhite was employed as foreman by the Decatur Construction Company in the construction of a runway at a grain elevator at Prairie Hall, in Macon county. About fifty or sixty feet from the elevator there was a small office building used by the construction company for the storage of tools and for the men to change their clothes and eat their noonday meals. In the morning of that day Wilhite and his • helper went to the office to get their tools and put on their overalls preparatory to going to work. The helper secured his tools and left the office'but Wilhite…