Wabash Railway Co. v. Industrial Commission

An award for compensation to Omar E. Cripe under the Workmen’s Compensation act was fixed by the arbitrator and confirmed by the Industrial Commission and also by the circuit court of Macon county. The cause is before this court on writ of error.

Cripe was an employee of the Wabash Railway Company at Decatur as a car repairer. On the day of his injur)'-, March 21, 1932, he and about twenty other workmen were engaged in repairing and dismantling cars in the yards of the railway company. There were a series of tracks running east and west. Tracks Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 were known as repair…