Consumers Co. v. Industrial Commission

delivered the opinipn of the court:

Harold P. Lindahl filed with the Industrial Commission a claim for compensation against the Consumers Company, in which he set forth that on January 17, 1923, he was injured in an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by that company in its yard at Belmont avenue and Herndon street, in Chicago, while “unloading coal from cars.”

Lindahl was twenty-two years of age at the time of the accident. He had worked in the yard where the accident occurred only three days. Prior to that time he had been employed by the Consumers Company in another…