Plencner v. Industrial Commission

At the hearing before the Industrial Commission the parties confined their proof to the question of whether Frank Plencner was an employee of the city of Wautoma entitled to receive workmen’s compensation for an injury received while working on the city sewer system. A portion of the sewer system in the city of Wautoma became clogged by roots of trees growing into it. Moon, as street commissioner, was charged with the duty of keeping the streets and sewers in repair, and when he reported this sewer condition to the mayor and the sewer committee they told him “to go ahead and hire some men,…