Witte v. State

On December 29, 1949, at about 3:30 P.M., claimant, then 41 years old, and an inmate of the Vandalia State Penal Farm, (where he had been committed for vagrancy on September 25,1949) was engaged in painting one of the buildings located on the grounds of the institution, and, while so working, stepped into an incline, fell, and injured his right knee.

Immediately after the accident, claimant was placed in an automobile by Frank Hartigan, a registered male nurse, and Mr. Churchill, an inmate orderly, and was taken to the institutional hospital. He was carried by the two men into the hospital.…