Workmen's Compensation Board v. Abbott

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Sustaining motion for appeal and reversing the judgment.

The appellee, L. Y. Abbott, was engaged in the business of an architect, engineer and builder in the city of Lousville and was subject to the provisions of our statute known as the “Workmen’s Compensation Act” (hereafter referred to as “the act.”) He had in his employ the appellee, Thomas J. McGuire, who was 28 years old and otherwise sui juris. Both Abbott and McGuire had accepted the provisions of the act, and the latter sustained an injury covered by it. He made application to the compensation board…