Marathon County v. Industrial Commission

The following opinion was filed April 7, 1937 :

Fowler, J.

This action was brought to vacate an award of compensation by the Industrial Commission under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. A minor son of the applicants was working upon a county trunk road in Marathon *516county and sustained an injury to his hand. Infection set in from which he died. The father had received supplies through the federal agency administering drought relief, and had agreed “in repayment thereof, to work sufficient hours on county or town roads, or on any other such projects in Marathon county as may be approved by the…