Newman v. Industrial Commission

The sole question presented upon this appeal is whether or not the deceased son of the claimants met his death from a hazard peculiar to or arising out *360of his employment and therefore compensable, or whether his death was the result of a hazard common to persons generally and therefore not compensable under the workmen’s compensation act.

Some language used by the court in Eagle River B. & S. Co. v. Industrial Comm. 199 Wis. 192, 225 N. W. 693, appears to be the basis of an argument to the effect that Hoenig v. Industrial Comm. 159 Wis. 646, 150 N. W. 996, is not the law. In the Hoenig Case it…