Esmonde v. Lima Locomotive Works, Inc.

This is an error proceeding from the Court of Common Pleas of Allen county, Ohio. In that court J.W. Esmonde was plaintiff, and the present defendant in error, Lima Locomotive Works, Inc., was defendant. The parties, therefore, in the course of this opinion, will be referred to in the relation in which they appeared in the Common Pleas Court.

Plaintiff had filed his claim with the Industrial Commission of Ohio for compensation for an injury claimed to have been sustained in the employ of the Lima Locomotive Works, Inc., a self-insurer. After rehearing the Industrial Commission made a final…