Halks v. Rust Engineering Co.

Mr. Associate Justice Oxner

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

This is a proceeding under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The claimant, Walter P. Halks, twenty-six years of age and a carpenter by trade, was injured while in the employ of the Rust Engineering Company on April 21, 1941, when a scaffold on which he was working broke and he fell about twenty feet to the concrete below. It is admitted that the accident arose out of and in the course of his employment. He was immediately taken in an ambulance to a hospital where he was examined by Dr. Owens, who concluded that the patient…