Indianapolis Heat & Light Co. v. Fitzwater
Indiana Court of Appeals
From the Industrial Board of Indiana. Proceeding’s for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Act by Mabel Fitzwater against the Indianapolis Heat and Light Company. From an award for applicant, the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtIbach, J.
Quincy Fitzwater was killed in an industrial accident on August 30,1917, while he was in the employ of appellant as a lineman, at an average, weekly wage of $19.72.
It appears that decedent was engaged in removing some heavy copper wires from appellant’s poles and crossarms, and replacing them with lighter wires. On the day that he was killed he had gone to the south end of a line of poles on Meridian street, climbed one of the poles, fastened 11 a rope hand line” to one end of the large copper wire, then cut such wire near *424where he had fastened the rope. He then dropped the wire and rope to…
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