Lefens v. Industrial Commission

The plaintiffs in error are the owners of the Teutonic building, in Chicago, and Andrew Erickson was in their employ as a janitor, having to attend to the fifth, sixth and seventh floors. On January 17, 1917, he was found at the bottom of the stairs of the sixth floor with a fractured skull, from which he died. On the application of his administrator an award was made under the Workmen’s Compensation act against the plaintiffs in error. A writ of certiorari issued by the circuit court was quashed and this writ of error was sued out.

Mrs. Erickson, the widow, testified that she came to the…